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Born	May 4, 1928 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	December 22, 2021 (aged 93) • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works	“Another September” • “Belief and Unbelief” • “Blood & Family” • “Butcher’s Dozen” • “Downstream” • “Fat Master” • “Man of War” • “Marginal Economy” • “New Poems 1956–73” • “Nightwalker, and Other Poems” • “One, and Other Poems”

Poet Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet

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Derek Mahon

Northern Irish poet and translator

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Louis MacNeice

British poet

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John Banim

Irish author

James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.

James Joyce

Irish author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Colm Toibin stands in a narrow cobblestone alleyway in Mantova, Italy, wearing a gray jacket and black shirt with his hands in his pockets.

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

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Irish poet

Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Thomas Moore

Irish author and composer

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Paul Durcan

Irish poet

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Eavan Boland

Irish poet and literary critic

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Frank O’Connor

Irish author

Mangan, James Clarence

James Clarence Mangan

Irish writer

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

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Lennox Robinson

Irish playwright

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Patrick Kavanagh

Irish 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

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

A Study of Poetry