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Key People

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Tiruppan

Indian poet-saint

Tiruvalluvar

Tiruvalluvar

Indian poet

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Kampan

Tamil poet

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Antal

Indian poet

Subramania Bharati

Subramania Bharati

Indian writer

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Nammazhvar

South Indian poet-saint

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Manikkavachakar

Hindu poet

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