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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
Ancient Greece
Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.
An Odyssey of Grecian Literature
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

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Additional Reading

Critical books include H.D. Rankin, Archilochus of Paros (1977); Carles Miralles and Jaume Pòrtulas, Archilochus and the Iambic Poetry (1983); Anne Pippin Burnett, Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho (1983, reissued 1998); and Bruno Gentili, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the Fifth Century (1988; originally published in Italian, 1984).

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Article thoroughly revised. May 02, 2008
Bibliography revised. May 02, 2008
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