Cesare Pavese: Quick Facts

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Born	September 9, 1908 • Italy
Died	August 27, 1950 (aged 41) • Turin • Italy
Notable Works	“American Literature, Essays and Opinions” • “Dialogues with Leuco” • “Hard Labor” • “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950” • “The Comrade” • “The Harvesters” • “The Moon and the Bonfires” • “The Political Prisoner”
Subjects Of Study	American literature

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Elio Vittorini

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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Anna Banti

Italian author and critic

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Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

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Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

The man who invented Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

English author

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Robert Bly

American author

Louise Bogan, 1967

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

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Ahmed Ali

Pakistani writer

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Louis Zukofsky

American poet

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Paul Bowles

American composer, translator, and author

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

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Andrew Lang

British scholar

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Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

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Italo Calvino

Italian author

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Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

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

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