Sei Shōnagon: Quick Facts

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Born	c.966 • Japan
Died	c.1025 • Japan
Notable Works	“Pillow Book”

Ishikawa Takuboku

Japanese poet

Ki no Tsurayuki

Japanese writer

Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor and director

Bashō

Japanese poet

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Abe Kōbō

Japanese author

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Japanese poet

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese courtier and author

Ihara Saikaku

Japanese author

Hagiwara Sakutarō

Japanese poet

Fujiwara Sadaie

Japanese poet

Kamo Chōmei

Japanese poet

Kūkai

Japanese Buddhist monk

Iio Sōgi

Japanese poet

Kawakami Hajime

Japanese journalist

Buson

Japanese artist and poet

Masaoka Shiki

Japanese author

Fujiwara Shunzei

Japanese poet and critic

Issa

Japanese poet

Higuchi Ichiyō

Japanese 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

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

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