Virgilio Piñera

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Born	August 4, 1912 • Cárdenas • Cuba
Died	October 18, 1979 (aged 67) • Havana • Cuba

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Sir Stephen Spender

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

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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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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

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