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Key People

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Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

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Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic

Paulo Coelho smiling in a close-up portrait, wearing a black jacket, with photographers and camera flashes in the blurred background at the Cannes Film Festival.

Paulo Coelho

Brazilian author

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Rachel de Queiroz

Brazilian novelist

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Rubem Fonseca

Brazilian author

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Nélida Piñon

Brazilian author

Portrait of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis wearing glasses and a dark suit, with a full beard and mustache, looking directly at the camera.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Brazilian author

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Clarice Lispector

Brazilian author

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Ariano Suassuna

Brazilian writer

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Manuel Bandeira

Brazilian poet

Gilberto Freyre

Gilberto Freyre

Brazilian sociologist

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Érico Lopes Veríssimo

Brazilian author

Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado

Brazilian author

Portrait of Cecilia Meireles in orange ink on a 100 Cruzeiros 1989 Brazilian banknote, surrounded by geometric and floral patterns.

Cecília Meireles

Brazilian poet

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Basílio da Gama

Brazilian poet

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Gregório de Matos Guerra

Brazilian poet

Andrade, Oswald de

Oswald de Andrade

Brazilian author

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Brazilian poet and journalist

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João Cabral de Melo Neto

Brazilian poet and diplomat

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Adonias Filho

Brazilian author

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

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