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Born	May 15, 1887 • Scotland
Died	January 3, 1959 (aged 71) • Cambridge • England

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

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Gawin Douglas

Scottish bishop and poet

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Andrew Lang

British scholar

Macpherson, James

James Macpherson

Scottish poet

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

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Robert Bly

American author

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Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Louise Bogan, 1967

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

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Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

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Frank O’Connor

Irish author

C. Day-Lewis, 1968.

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

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Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Russian poet

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Wilhelm Müller

German poet

Hviezdoslav

Hviezdoslav

Slovak poet

Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

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William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Scottish 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

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

A Study of Poetry

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