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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Also Known As	Dominic Francis Moraes
Born	July 19, 1938 • Mumbai • India
Died	June 2, 2004 (aged 65) • Mumbai • India
Notable Works	“A Beginning”

George Woodcock

Canadian writer

John Lehmann

British poet

Patrick Anderson

Canadian poet

Geoffrey Grigson

British editor and poet

Kamala Das

Indian author

Meena Alexander

Indian poet and teacher

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

George Orwell

British author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Graham Greene

British author

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Andrey Bely

Russian poet

Alan Bennett

British playwright

Simon Armitage

British poet, playwright, and novelist

Ann Radcliffe

English author

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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

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