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Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac's On the Road Explained
Scroll of On the Road Handwritten note from Jack Kerouac to Malcolm Cowley on blue paper, with a separate postcard below reading BOO! in large red letters and signed Jack.
Yellow letter tiles on a teal background spell 'what is a haiku?' with abstract calligraphic scribbles in the background
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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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Books. Reading. Publishing. Print. Literature. Literacy. Rows of used books for sale on a table.
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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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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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Jack Kerouac's On the Road Explained
Learn more about Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.
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The History of the Haiku, and How to Write One
Three lines. Five, seven, five.
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Leader of the Beats
American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, c. 1965.
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Scroll of On the Road
A visitor at an exhibition of the famous scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's 1957...
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Correspondence from novelist Jack Kerouac to editor Malcolm Cowley, 1956
“I hope we can publish On the Road at Last.” Note and postcard from Jack Kerouac...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Malcolm Cowley, 1969 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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American writer Jack Kerouac reading his work in New York City, c. 1958.
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