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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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Mesopotamian Religion. Cuneiform tablet in the British Museum, London, England, 7th Century BC, describing the Flood Epic, a deluge story in the Epic of Gilgamesh added as Tablet XI to the ten original tablets of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who copied or altered parts of the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. (flood tablet, Neo Assyrian, clay tablet)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Also Known As	John Frederick Lehmann
Born	June 2, 1907 • England
Died	April 7, 1987 (aged 79) • London • England
Notable Works	“New Writing”

Geoffrey Grigson

British editor and poet

George Woodcock

Canadian writer

William Morris

British artist and author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sir Victor Gollancz

British author and publisher

Cyril Connolly

British writer and editor

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Dom Moraes

Indian writer

Joan Aiken

British author

A.J.M. Smith

Canadian poet and anthologist

William Blake

British writer and artist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Siegfried Sassoon

British writer

Ann Radcliffe

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G.K. Chesterton

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William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

Leigh Hunt

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Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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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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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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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