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Also Known As	Muan
Born	1443 • Japan • Japan
Died	May 4, 1527 (aged 84)
Notable Works	“Minase Sangin Hyakuin: A Poem of One Hundred Links Composed by Three Poets at Minase”

Satō Haruo

Japanese author

Fujiwara Sadaie

Japanese poet

Kagawa Kageki

Japanese poet

Ōoka Makoto

Japanese poet and literary critic

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Japanese poet

Kamo Chōmei

Japanese poet

Masaoka Shiki

Japanese author

Fujiwara Shunzei

Japanese poet and critic

Matsunaga Teitoku

Japanese poet

Yamazaki Sōkan

Japanese poet

Ki no Tsurayuki

Japanese writer

Saigyō

Japanese poet

Takahama Kyoshi

Japanese poet

Kamo Mabuchi

Japanese author

Mukai Kyorai

Japanese poet

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Ezra Pound

American poet

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Mark Van Doren

American writer

Ana Castillo

American poet and 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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