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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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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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