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Born	September 9, 1908 • Italy
Died	August 27, 1950 (aged 41) • Turin • Italy
Notable Works	“American Literature, Essays and Opinions” • “Dialogues with Leuco” • “Hard Labor” • “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950” • “The Comrade” • “The Harvesters” • “The Moon and the Bonfires” • “The Political Prisoner”
Subjects Of Study	American literature

Elio Vittorini

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Anna Banti

Italian author and critic

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

The man who invented Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

English author

Robert Bly

American author

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

Ahmed Ali

Pakistani writer

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Paul Bowles

American composer, translator, and author

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Andrew Lang

British scholar

Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

Italo Calvino

Italian author

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian 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:

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

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