Nicolae Davidescu: Quick Facts

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Born	1888 • Bucharest • Romania
Died	1954 (aged 66)
Notable Works	“Cântecul omului”

Tudor Arghezi

Romanian author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Théophile Gautier

French author

François Mauriac

French author

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Robert Graves

British writer

Robert Penn Warren

American writer

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Baren

Chinese author and critic

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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