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Flourished	c.275 BCE -
Notable Works	“Messeniaca”

Choerilus

Greek epic poet

Anyte

Greek poet

Leonidas of Tarentum

Greek poet

Meleager

Greek poet

Homer

Greek poet

Hesiod

Greek poet

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

Mimnermus

Greek poet

Antimachus of Colophon

Greek poet and scholar

Nonnus

Greek poet

Quintus Smyrnaeus

Greek poet

Aulus Licinius Archias

Greek poet

Agathias

Byzantine historian and poet

Philodemus

Greek poet and philosopher

Colluthus of Lycopolis

Greek poet

Panyassis

epic poet

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Claudian

Roman author

Albinovanus Pedo

Roman poet

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

Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

An Odyssey of Grecian Literature

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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