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Flourished	c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE

Hermesianax

Greek poet

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Homer

Homer

Greek poet

Pindar

Greek poet

Hesiod

Hesiod

Greek poet

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus

Alcaeus

Greek poet

Simonides of Ceos

Greek poet

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus

Sappho

Greek poet

Archilochus

Greek author

Anacreon, Roman copy of a 5th-century-bc bust by Phidias; in the Louvre, Paris.

Anacreon

Greek poet

Fragment of Bacchylides' work, from a papyrus roll of the 2nd century ad; in the British Museum, London.

Bacchylides

Greek lyric poet

Callimachus

Greek poet and scholar

Stesichorus

Greek poet

Xenophanes

Greek poet and philosopher

Empedocles

Greek philosopher and scholar

Ibycus

Greek poet

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

Theocritus

Greek poet

Alcman

Greek poet

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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:

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

A Study of Poetry