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Born	February 17, 1951 • India
Died	November 21, 2018 (aged 67) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	“House of a Thousand Doors” • “I Root My Name” • “In the Middle Earth” • “Stone Roots” • “The Bird’s Bright Ring” • “The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts” • “Without Place”

Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

Drawing of Sri Aurobindo with long hair, mustache, and a pointed beard, shown facing forward with a calm expression.

Sri Aurobindo

Indian philosopher and yogi

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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David Lodge

English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton

British diplomat and poet

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Maurice Baring

British author

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Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study

Khushwant Singh

Indian writer

Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee

Indian politician

Photo of Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu

Indian writer and political leader

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Bana

Indian writer

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

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.

James Joyce

Irish 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

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