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Born	1938 (age 88) • Sudan

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

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

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Okot p’Bitek

Ugandan author

Samuel Johnson

English author

James Joyce

Irish author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Graham Greene

British author

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

Leigh Hunt

British author

A.S. Byatt

British scholar, literary critic, and novelist

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Qian Zhongshu

Chinese scholar 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

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

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

A Study of Poetry

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