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Born	January 7, 1873 • Orléans • France
Died	September 5, 1914 (aged 41) • France
Notable Works	“Eve” • “Jeanne d’Arc” • “Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d’Arc”

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Romain Rolland

French writer

Francis Viélé-Griffin

French poet

Francis Jammes

French author

Pierre Reverdy

French poet

Pierre Louÿs

French author

Léopold Senghor

president of Senegal

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet

Paul Nougé

Belgian author

Clément Pansaers

Belgian poet

Octave Crémazie

French-Canadian author

Robert Charbonneau

Canadian writer

Ousmane Socé

Senegalese writer and politician

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Canadian poet

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Victor Hugo

French writer

Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

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

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

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