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Born	c.1275 • Ephesus • Turkey
Died	1345

Saint Andrew of Crete

archbishop of Gortyna, Crete

Agathias

Byzantine historian and poet

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

George the Pisidian

Byzantine poet

John Tzetzes

Byzantine scholar

Michael Choniates

Byzantine historian

Theodore Prodromus

Byzantine author

Constantine Manasses

Byzantine chronicler

John Mauropous

Byzantine scholar

John Geometres

Byzantine poet, official, and monk

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Homer

Greek poet

Pindar

Greek poet

Hesiod

Greek poet

Alcaeus

Greek poet

Simonides of Ceos

Greek poet

Sappho

Greek poet

Archilochus

Greek author

Anacreon

Greek poet

Bacchylides

Greek lyric poet

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

A Study of Poetry

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

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