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Johann Heinrich Voss
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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Born February 20, 1751 • Germany
Died March 29, 1826 (aged 75) • Heidelberg • Germany
Notable Works “Luise”
Movement / Style Göttinger Hain

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Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
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Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu
Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
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Alexander Pope
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
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Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
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Christian Morgenstern
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Wilhelm Müller
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
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Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Pindemonte, Ippolito
Ippolito Pindemonte
Italian 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
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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
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry