Scandinavian literature: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Nordic literature

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Brú, Hedin

Hedin Brú

Faroese writer

Georg Brandes, 1866

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

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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