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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
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 c.1100 • Jersey
Died After 1174 • United Kingdom
Notable Works “Roman de Brut” • “Roman de Rou”
Subjects Of Study England • Anglo-Norman • history of United Kingdom
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
British historian
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
British historian
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Roger Of Hoveden
English historian
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William Of Newburgh
English historian
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Jean Le Bel
French historian
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Henry Knighton
British historian
Examine John Stow's systematic description of 16th-century London in his work A Survey of London
John Stow
English author
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Peter Langtoft
English historian
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Robert Of Gloucester
English historian
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Thomas Hearne
British historian
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Thomas Walsingham
English monk
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Ralph Of Coggeshall
English historian
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Edward Hall
English historian
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
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John Rushworth
English historian
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Battle of Sluis during the Hundred Years' War
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
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Florence Of Worcester
British historian

Related Quizzes

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
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