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William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923. Maud Gonne, c. 1901 William Butler Yeats, c. 1915 Gravestone of W. B. Yeats in Drumcliff, County Sligo, Ireland, inscribed with his epitaph and dates, surrounded by other old headstones and trees.
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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
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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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"The Tyger" from the combined volume of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, ca. 1825; relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and gold.(poems, poetry)
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William Butler Yeats
Poet William Butler Yeats, 1923.
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Maud Gonne, c. 1901
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William Butler Yeats, c. 1915
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Headstone at the grave of William Butler Yeats, inscribed with the epitaph he wrote...
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