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Died	c.1075 or c.1081

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Saint Andrew of Crete

archbishop of Gortyna, Crete

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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

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Michael Choniates

Byzantine historian

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Constantine Manasses

Byzantine chronicler

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John Geometres

Byzantine poet, official, and monk

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St. John of Damascus

Christian saint

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George the Pisidian

Byzantine poet

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John Tzetzes

Byzantine scholar

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Theodore Prodromus

Byzantine author

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John Donne

English poet

St. Ambrose

St. Ambrose

bishop of Milan

Dwight, Timothy

Timothy Dwight

American theologian and poet

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Jacob Of Serugh

Syrian writer

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Agathias

Byzantine historian and poet

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Manuel Philes

Byzantine poet

Leo III

Leo III

Byzantine emperor

Photius, lead seal; in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.

Saint Photius

patriarch of Constantinople

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Michael VIII Palaeologus

Byzantine emperor

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Theodosius Of Alexandria

Egyptian patriarch

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Euthymius I

Orthodox patriarch

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

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