Meena Alexander

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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	February 17, 1951 • India
Died	November 21, 2018 (aged 67) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	“House of a Thousand Doors” • “I Root My Name” • “In the Middle Earth” • “Stone Roots” • “The Bird’s Bright Ring” • “The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts” • “Without Place”

Bana

Indian writer

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo

Indian philosopher and yogi

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

David Lodge

British author, editor, and critic

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton

British diplomat and poet

Maurice Baring

British author

Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

Photo of Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu

Indian writer and political leader

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Quiz

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

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