Edme Boursault: Quick Facts

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Born	October 1638 • France
Died	September 15, 1701 (aged 62) • Paris • France

Jean de La Taille

French author

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Victor Hugo

French writer

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan French author

Paul Claudel

French author

François Mauriac

French author

Jules Romains

French author

Antonin Artaud

French author and actor

Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot

Paul Scarron

French author

Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

French author

Jean Moréas

French poet

Alfred de Musset

French author

Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond

French author

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

Charles Vildrac

French author

Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin

French 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

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

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

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