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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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Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and autodidact.

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Also Known As	Thomas Allen Monro Curnow
Born	June 17, 1911 • Timaru • New Zealand
Died	September 23, 2001 (aged 90) • Auckland • New Zealand
Notable Works	“A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-45” • The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

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Witi Ihimaera

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Samuel Johnson

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Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg

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Constance Lindsay Skinner

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Douglas Stewart

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James K. Baxter

New Zealand poet

Victor Hugo

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Alexander Pope

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John Dryden

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W. H. Auden

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Robert Southey

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Ernest F. Fenollosa

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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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