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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

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Born	December 6, 1893 • Harrow • England
Died	May 1, 1978 (aged 84) • England

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Muriel Spark

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Ted Hughes

British poet

G.K. Chesterton

British author

A.A. Milne

British author

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

Sheila Kaye-Smith

British author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Sean O’Faolain

Irish author

J.R.R. Tolkien

English author

Arthur Conan Doyle

British author

Martin Amis

British author

Frederick Forsyth

British author

Harriet Martineau

British author

Joan Aiken

British author

Charles Tomlinson

British poet and translator

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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