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Thomas Shadwell
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A Study of Poetry
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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
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Born 1642? • Norfolk • England
Died November 19, 1692 • London • England
Title / Office poet laureate (1689-1692)
Movement / Style Court Wit

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Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
English writer
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
Thomas Lodge
English writer
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Laurence Binyon
English scholar and poet
Anne Ridler
British writer
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Uys Krige
South African dramatist
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Louis MacNeice
British poet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
British poet

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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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry