Satō Haruo

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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	April 9, 1892 • Japan
Died	May 6, 1964 (aged 72) • Tokyo • Japan
Subjects Of Study	Yosano Akiko

Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor, director, writer, and television personality

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Ihara Saikaku

Japanese author

Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

Japanese writer

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Edgar Allan Poe

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Edmund Wilson

American critic

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

G.K. Chesterton

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Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

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Sir Stephen Spender

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Baren

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Riccardo Bacchelli

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Ana Castillo

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José Emilio Pacheco

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Constance Lindsay Skinner

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Rosario Ferré

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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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