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Born	March 13, 1897 • Charleroi • Belgium
Died	September 5, 1977 (aged 80) • Belgium

Charles Plisnier

Belgian author

Paul Willems

Belgian author

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Dominique Rolin

Belgian author

Jean Ray

Belgian author

Herman Teirlinck

Flemish author

Pierre Mertens

Belgian author

Paul Nougé

Belgian author

Henry Bauchau

Belgian author

Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

Georges Eekhoud

Belgian writer

Georges Rodenbach

Belgian poet

Marie Gevers

Belgian writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

James Joyce

Irish author

Black and white portrait of French novelist Emile Zola with glasses, a full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking to the side.

Émile Zola

French author

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Marcel Proust

French writer

Tillie Olsen

American author

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

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

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