Matthias Claudius: Quick Facts

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Born	August 15, 1740 • Germany
Died	January 21, 1815 (aged 74) • Hamburg • Germany

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

René Schickele

German writer

Johann Heinrich Voss

German poet

Erich Kästner

German author

Paul Ernst

German writer

Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

Leigh Hunt

British author

Julia Ward Howe

American writer

William Ernest Henley

British writer

Diane di Prima

American poet

Karl Kraus

Austrian writer

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Susanna Rowson

American author and actress

Jessie Redmon Fauset

American author

Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe

American poet and writer

Iliya Abu Madi

Arab writer

Etheridge Knight

American poet

Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona

Buenaventura Carles Aribau

Spanish author

Bodmer, engraving by H. Pfenninger after a portrait by F. Tischbein

Johann Jakob Bodmer

Swiss historian and writer

Kawahigashi Hekigotō

Japanese poet

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

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