James Crerar Reaney: Quick Facts

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Born	September 1, 1926 • near Stratford • Canada
Died	June 11, 2008 (aged 81) • London • Canada
Notable Works	“Fourteen Barrels from Sea to Sea” • “The Donnellys”

Timothy Findley

Canadian author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

Félix-Antoine Savard

Canadian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

James Joyce

Irish author

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Graham Greene

British author

Brendan Behan

Irish author

George Gascoigne

English poet

Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Ernest Dowson

British poet

Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov

Russian author

James Kirke Paulding

American writer

Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Ama Ata Aidoo

Ghanaian writer

Richard Savage

English writer

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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