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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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The Prado Museum facade at the Diego Velaszquez memorial. Established in 1819, the museum is considered the best collection of Spanish art and one of the world's finest collections of European art. Madrid, Spain

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Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden

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Also Known As	Robert David FitzGerald
Born	February 22, 1902 • Australia
Died	May 24, 1987 (aged 85) • Glen Innes • Australia
Notable Works	“Essay on Memory” • “Moonlight Acre”

Alfred George Stephens

Australian literary critic and journalist

Judith Wright

Australian poet

A.D. Hope

Australian poet

James Phillip McAuley

Australian poet

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Charles Baudelaire

French author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Ezra Pound

American poet

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Edmund Wilson

American critic

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Robert Penn Warren

American writer

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

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

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