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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:
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Born December 24, 1822 • England
Died April 15, 1888 (aged 65) • Liverpool • England
Notable Works “Culture and Anarchy” • “Dover Beach” • “Empedocles on Etna” • “Essays in Criticism” • “God and the Bible” • “On Translating Homer” • “On the Study of Celtic Literature” • “Sohrab and Rustum” • “The Forsaken Merman” • “The Scholar Gipsy” • “The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems” • “The Study of Poetry” • “Thyrsis”
Notable Family Members father Thomas Arnold
Subjects Of Study English literature • literature • poetry • anarchism • culture

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American-English writer T.S. Eliot
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
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Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
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G.K. Chesterton
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George Bernard Shaw
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William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
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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
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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