Iio Sōgi: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Sōgi
Born	1421 • Japan • Japan
Died	September 1, 1502 (aged 81) • Hakone • Japan
Notable Works	“Minase Sangin Hyakuin: A Poem of One Hundred Links Composed by Three Poets at Minase”

Bashō

Japanese poet

Issa

Japanese poet

Ōoka Makoto

Japanese poet and literary critic

Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor and director

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Abe Kōbō

Japanese author

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Japanese poet

Ihara Saikaku

Japanese author

Hagiwara Sakutarō

Japanese poet

Kamo Chōmei

Japanese poet

Fujiwara Sadaie

Japanese poet

Kūkai

Japanese Buddhist monk

Ishikawa Takuboku

Japanese poet

Sei Shōnagon

Japanese writer

Kawakami Hajime

Japanese journalist

Buson

Japanese artist and poet

Masaoka Shiki

Japanese author

Fujiwara Shunzei

Japanese poet and critic

Shōtetsu

Japanese poet

Matsunaga Teitoku

Japanese 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

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

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

A Study of Poetry

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