Paolo Antonio Rolli: Quick Facts

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Born	June 13, 1687 • Rome • Italy
Died	March 20, 1765 (aged 77) • Todi • Italy
Notable Works	“Paradise Lost”

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Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

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Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

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Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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Elio Vittorini

Italian author

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Vittorio Sereni

Italian poet, author, editor and translator

Monti, detail of an oil painting by A. Appiani; in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

Vincenzo Monti

Italian author

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Anna Banti

Italian author and critic

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Giorgio Manganelli

Italian author

Pindemonte, Ippolito

Ippolito Pindemonte

Italian writer

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

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John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet.

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

American author

Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

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Donald Justice

American poet and editor

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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet

English poet and translator

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Sir John Harington

English 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

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