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Born	May 13, 1914 • Madagascar
Died	December 20, 1999 (aged 85) • Troyes • France

Jacques Rabemananjara

Malagasy author

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Clément Marot

French poet

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

Yves Bonnefoy

French author

Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Edgar Quinet

French historian and poet

Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle

French poet

Jean-Antoine de Baïf

French poet

Bonaventure Des Périers

French author

Pontus de Tyard

French poet

Richard Howard

American author

Rémy Belleau

French poet

İbrahim Şinasi

Turkish author

Jan Kasprowicz

Polish writer

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

Édouard Maunick

Mauritian poet

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

French author

Florent Chrestien

French author

Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier

Jacques Delille

French writer

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

Polish author and diplomat

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:

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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

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