Paul van Ostaijen: Quick Facts

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Born	February 22, 1896 • Antwerp • Belgium
Died	March 18, 1928 (aged 32) • Belgium
Notable Works	“Diergaarde voor kinderen van nu” • “Gedichten” • “Het sienjaal” • “Vogelvrij”
Movement / Style	Dada • Expressionism

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian author

Guido Gezelle

Flemish poet and priest

Herman Teirlinck

Flemish author

Hugo Claus

Belgian writer, director, and painter

Paul Nougé

Belgian author

Willem Elsschot

Belgian writer

Karel van de Woestijne

Flemish author

Jan van Nijlen

Belgian poet

Albrecht Rodenbach

Flemish writer

Clément Pansaers

Belgian poet

William Morris

British artist and author

Mi Fu

Chinese artist

Pierre-Jean Jouve

French author

Jacob van Maerlant

Dutch poet

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dutch author

Arthur David Waley

British translator

Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

André Breton

French poet

Theodor Däubler

German-language poet

Marcel Broodthaers

Belgian artist

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

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

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