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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
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Also Known As Eliza Roxey Snow
Born January 21, 1804 • Massachusetts
Died December 5, 1887 (aged 83) • Salt Lake City • Utah
Notable Family Members spouse Joseph Smith • spouse Brigham Young • brother Lorenzo Snow
William Augustus Muhlenberg
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Phoebe Cary
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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T.S. Eliot
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Herman Melville
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William Faulkner
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Walt Whitman
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
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Robert Frost, 1954
Robert Frost
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kevin Young
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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