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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).

World Poetry Day

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket?

The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

What If the President Is Impeached?

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

Nativity Scene, Adoration of the Magi, Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Montenegro

Why Is Christmas in December?

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Born	October 16, 1944 (age 80) • Dublin • Ireland
Awards And Honors	Costa Book Awards (1990)
Notable Works	“Daddy, Daddy” • “Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil” • “Life Is a Dream” • “Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being” • “The Laughter of Mothers”

Poet Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet

John Banim

Irish author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

AE

Irish poet

Thomas Kinsella

Irish poet

Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Thomas Moore

Irish author and composer

Eavan Boland

Irish poet and literary critic

Mangan, James Clarence

James Clarence Mangan

Irish writer

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

Derek Mahon

Northern Irish poet and translator

Louis MacNeice

British poet

Lennox Robinson

Irish playwright

Patrick Kavanagh

Irish poet

George Darley

British author

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

A Study of Poetry

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