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Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

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Greek poet

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Roman poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Hesiod

Hesiod

Greek poet

Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library

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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

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Quintus Ennius

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Rustaveli, Shota

Shota Rustaveli

Georgian poet

Lucan

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Statius

Roman poet

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

Peretz Markish

Russian writer

Silius Italicus

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Lucius Livius Andronicus

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Robert McAlmon

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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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