ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Mir ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī • ʿAlī Shīr Nawāʾī • Mir ʿAlī Shīr Nevāʾī
Born	1441 • Herāt • Afghanistan
Died	January 3, 1501 (aged 60) • Herāt • Afghanistan
Notable Works	“Khamseh”
Subjects Of Study	Turkish literature • prosody

Ziya Gökalp

Turkish author

Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli

Turkish author

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi

poet

Martin Opitz

German poet

Kemalpaşazâde

Turkish historian

Nefʾi

Ottoman poet

Namık Kemal

Turkish author and social reformer

Aşık Paşa

Turkish author

Nazım Hikmet

Turkish author

Taceddin Ahmedi

Turkish author

Orhan Veli Kanık

Turkish poet

İbrahim Şinasi

Turkish author

Bâkî

Turkish author

Ahmed Yesevi

Turkish author

Tevfik Fikret

Turkish poet

Necati Cumalı

Turkish author

Gâlib Dede

Turkish author

Ahmed Haşim

Turkish author

Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem

Turkish author

Ahmed Nedim

Turkish poet

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

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