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Also Known As	J. P. Clark-Bekederemo
Born	April 6, 1935 (age 91) • Nigeria
Founder	“Black Orpheus”
Notable Works	“America, Their America” • “Black Orpheus” • “Ozidi” • “The Raft”
Subjects Of Study	oral literature • poetry • Ijo

Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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Peter Redgrove

English poet, novelist, and playwright

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Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

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Massimo Bontempelli

Italian poet

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Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford

Edward Young

English author

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Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Drinkwater

British poet

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Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

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

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