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Born	March 29, 1885 • Subotica • Serbia
Died	November 3, 1936 (aged 51) • Budapest • Hungary
Notable Works	“A szegény kisgyermek panaszai” • “Wonder Maid”

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Cesare Pavese

Italian 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

Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Baren

Chinese author and critic

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Rosario Ferré

Puerto Rican writer

John Wain

British critic and writer

Alice Dunbar Nelson

American author

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

Satō Haruo

Japanese author

José Régio

Portuguese author and critic

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

A Study of Poetry

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