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Born	April 15, 1878 • Biel • Switzerland
Died	December 25, 1956 (aged 78) • Herisau • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Jakob von Gunten” • “The Microscripts”

Adolf Frey

Swiss writer and historian

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Peter Bichsel

Swiss author

Jakob Schaffner

Swiss writer

Robert Faesi

Swiss writer

Albin Zollinger

Swiss writer

Alfred Andersch

German-Swiss writer

Meinrad Inglin

Swiss author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian-German poet

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Friedrich Hölderlin

German poet

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Uwe Johnson

German author

Ingeborg Bachmann

Austrian author

Novalis

German poet

Eduard Friedrich Mörike

German poet

Joseph, baron von Eichendorff

German writer

René Schickele

German writer

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

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