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Johan Ludvig Runeberg
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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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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 February 5, 1804 • Pietarsaari • Finland
Died May 6, 1877 (aged 73) • Porvoo • Finland

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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
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Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
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Danish poet
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Bengali poet
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian author
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Maltese poet
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Ferenc Kölcsey
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Naphtali Herz Imber
Hebrew poet
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Bertel Johan Sebastian, Baron Gripenberg
Finnish poet
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Rabbe Enckell
Finnish poet
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Edith Södergran
Swedish-Finnish poet
Franzén, oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Frans Mikael Franzén
Finnish-Swedish poet
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
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Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
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Thomas Campion
English poet and musician
Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
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Juan del Encina
Spanish author and composer
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

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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