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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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:
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John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
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Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
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Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
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Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
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Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Jobim
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Cole Porter
Cole Porter
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John Perry Barlow
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Thomas Campion
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Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
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Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
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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