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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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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

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Also Known As	Karl Werner Aspenström
Born	November 13, 1918 • Sweden
Died	January 1997 (aged 78)
Notable Works	“Bäcken”

Pär Lagerkvist

Swedish author

Almqvist, detail of an oil painting by C.P. Mazer, 1836, in the Nordiska Museet,Stockholm

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Swedish author

Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm

Oscar Ivar Levertin

Swedish poet and scholar

Ludvig Anselm Nordström

Swedish author

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Swedish author

Carl Gustaf af Leopold

Swedish poet

Karin Boye

Swedish author

Frans Gunnar Bengtsson

Swedish author

Karl Vennberg

Swedish poet

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

James Joyce

Irish author

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Tillie Olsen

American author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Alice Walker

American writer

Graham Greene

British author

Lu Xun

Chinese writer

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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:

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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

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