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Born	c.1500 • France?
Died	c.1544 • Lyon • France
Notable Works	“Cymbalum Mundi: Four Very Ancient Joyous and Facetious Dialogues” • “Lysis” • “Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales”

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Marcel Proust

French writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Colette

French writer

Clément Marot

French poet

Charles Maurras

French writer and political theorist

Yves Bonnefoy

French author

Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Edgar Quinet

French historian and poet

Gérard de Nerval

French poet

Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle

French poet

Jules Laforgue

French poet

Jean-Antoine de Baïf

French poet

Marguerite Yourcenar

French author

Pontus de Tyard

French poet

Rémy Belleau

French poet

Jean Dorat

French humanist

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

French author

Florent Chrestien

French author

Petrus Borel

French author

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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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