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Born	April 9, 1892 • Japan
Died	May 6, 1964 (aged 72) • Tokyo • Japan
Subjects Of Study	Yosano Akiko

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Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor and director

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

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Ihara Saikaku

Japanese author

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Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

Japanese writer

Masamune Hakuchō.

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

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Cesare Pavese

Italian 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

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

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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Baren

Chinese author and critic

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Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

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Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

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José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican author

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Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

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Rosario Ferré

Puerto Rican writer

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John Wain

British critic and 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

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

A Study of Poetry

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