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Born	1931 • Gulu • Uganda
Died	July 19, 1982 (aged 51) • Kampala
Notable Works	“Song of Lawino”
Subjects Of Study	folk tale • poetry • Acholi

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Taban lo Liyong

South Sudanese and Ugandan writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English 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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

American author

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John Berger

British essayist and cultural thinker

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian 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

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

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Dannie Abse

Welsh poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist

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Susan Musgrave

American-born author

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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Qian Zhongshu

Chinese scholar and author

Novelist Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

British writer

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

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

A Study of Poetry