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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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Also Known As Cynwulf • Kynewulf
Flourished c.800 - c.825
Caedmon
English poet
John Gardner
American author
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Jamaican folklorist, poet, and radio and television personality
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Antal
Indian poet
John Banim
Irish author
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Homer
Homer
Greek poet
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
English poet

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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