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Born	c.1385 • Bayeux • France
Died	c.1433 • Avignon • France
Notable Works	“La Belle Dame sans merci” • “Livre des quatre dames” • “Quadrilogue invectif”
Movement / Style	rhétoriqueurs

Christine de Pisan

French writer

Pamphile Lemay

Canadian author

Michel Houellebecq

French author

Théophile Gautier

French author

François Mauriac

French author

Pierre-Jean Jouve

French author

Pontus de Tyard

French poet

Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond

French author

Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

French author and actress

Émile Deschamps

French poet

Clément Marot

French poet

Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.

Jean Froissart

French poet and historian

Georges Chastellain

Burgundian author

Eustache Deschamps

French writer

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian poet

Michel Bibaud

French-Canadian author

Félix-Antoine Savard

Canadian author

Jean Lemaire de Belges

Belgian poet

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

A Study of Poetry

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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