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Miroslav Krleža

Croatian author

statue of Ivan Gundulić

Ivan Gundulić

Croatian author

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Juraj Križanić

Croatian scholar

Šenoa, August

August Šenoa

Croatian writer

Stature of Marko Marulić

Marko Marulić

Croatian writer

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Petar Hektorović

Dalmatian 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:

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