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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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Born April 16, 1972 (age 52) • Falmouth • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors poet laureate (2018) • poet laureate (2017) • Pulitzer Prize (2012)
Notable Works “Life on Mars” • “Ordinary Light” • “Such Color” • “The Slowdown” • “Wade in the Water”

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Louise Glück
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Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
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Ted Kooser
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
American writer
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey
American poet and teacher
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
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Robert Frost, 1954
Robert Frost
American poet
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown
American poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Charles Wright
Charles Wright
American poet
Gary Snyder
American poet
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Maxine Kumin
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator

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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:
Poetry: First Lines
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
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry