Emilio Cecchi: Quick Facts

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Born	July 14, 1884 • Florence • Italy
Died	September 6, 1966 (aged 82) • Rome • Italy
Founder	“La ronda”

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Vincenzo Cardarelli

Italian author

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

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S.S. Van Dine

American critic, editor, and author

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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet

English poet

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Italian poet Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Pietro Metastasio.

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

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Gabriele Rossetti

Italian scholar

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

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Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

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Vittorio Sereni

Italian poet, author, editor and translator

Alvaro, Corrado: Gente d'Aspromonte

Corrado Alvaro

Italian author

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Giorgio Manganelli

Italian author

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Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

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Gasparo, Count Gozzi

Italian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

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