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Also Known As	Bruce Victor Beaver
Born	February 14, 1928 • Australia
Died	February 17, 2004 (aged 76) • Australia
Notable Works	“Letters to Live Poets” • “The Hot Spring” • “You Can’t Come Back”

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Joseph Furphy

Australian author

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David Malouf

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Colin Johnson

Australian author

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Randolph Stow

Australian writer

Vance Palmer.

Vance Palmer

Australian author

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Alfred George Stephens

Australian literary critic and journalist

Paterson, A.B.

Banjo Paterson

Australian poet

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Thea Astley

Australian author

Katharine Susannah Prichard.

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Australian author

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Hal Porter

Australian author

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Kenneth Slessor

Australian poet

James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.

James Joyce

Irish author

Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

Daniel Defoe

English author

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

American author

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

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Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

American poet and journalist

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Marya Mannes

American author and critic

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Jens Bjørneboe

Norwegian author

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Nick Joaquin

Filipino 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

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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form