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Also Known As Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Aṣmaʿī
Born c.740 • Basra • Iraq
Died 828 • Basra • Iraq
Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah
Iraqi scholar
Abū Tammām
Abū Tammām
Syrian poet
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan
American author
Paula Gunn Allen
American author and scholar
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Palestinian poet
Guo Moruo
Guo Moruo
Chinese scholar
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Albert Wendt
Samoan writer
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
American humorist and essayist
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Scott Turow
Scott Turow
American author
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Hughes, Ted
Ted Hughes
British poet
Fujiwara Sadaie
Japanese poet
Peretz Markish
Russian writer

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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