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Born	c.1238 • Turkey
Died	c.1320 • Turkey

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Aşık Paşa

Turkish author

Ahmed Yesevi

Turkish author

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi

poet

Rūmī

Sufi mystic and poet

Ziya Gökalp

Turkish author

Namık Kemal

Turkish author and social reformer

Nazım Hikmet

Turkish author

Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli

Turkish author

Taceddin Ahmedi

Turkish author

Orhan Veli Kanık

Turkish poet

ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī

Turkish poet

İbrahim Şinasi

Turkish author

Bâkî

Turkish author

Tevfik Fikret

Turkish poet

Necati Cumalı

Turkish author

Gâlib Dede

Turkish author

Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī

Islamic mystic

Ahmed Haşim

Turkish author

Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem

Turkish author

Jāmī

Persian poet and scholar

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

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

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

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