Jean Lemaire de Belges: Quick Facts

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Born	c.1473 • Belgium
Died	c.1525
Notable Works	“Épitres de l’amant vert” • “La Concorde des deux langages” • “Les Illustrations de Gaule et singularitéz de Troye”
Movement / Style	rhétoriqueurs

Marcel Broodthaers

Belgian artist

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet

Charles Plisnier

Belgian author

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Paul Nougé

Belgian author

Clément Pansaers

Belgian poet

Henry Bauchau

Belgian author

Christian Dotremont

Belgian author

Max Elskamp

Belgian poet

André van Hasselt

Belgian poet

Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

Max Waller

Belgian poet

Marcel Thiry

Belgian author

Georges Rodenbach

Belgian poet

Marie Gevers

Belgian writer

Émile Cammaerts

Belgian poet and writer

Géo Norge

Belgian author

Clément Marot

French poet

Christine de Pisan

French writer

Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.

Jean Froissart

French poet and historian

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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