Shota Rustaveli

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Born	c.1160
Died After	c.1220
Notable Works	“The Knight in the Panther’s Skin”

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Silius Italicus

Roman poet

John Milton

English poet

Homer

Greek poet

Virgil

Roman poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Valmiki

Hindu sage

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Hesiod

Greek poet

Ferdowsī

Persian poet

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Quintus Ennius

Roman author

Lucan

Roman author

Statius

Roman poet

Peretz Markish

Russian writer

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Roman poet

Claudian

Roman author

Robert McAlmon

American author

Gnaeus Naevius

Roman 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

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

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