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Dorothy Parker, 1939

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Key People

Portrait of Shel Silverstein with a bald head and beard, leaning forward with hands clasped and a thoughtful expression.

Shel Silverstein

American illustrator and author

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Hilaire Belloc

British author

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William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Scottish poet

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Vincent Voiture

French writer

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E.C. Bentley

British author

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Edme Boursault

French author

Praed, detail of a watercolour by Daniel Maclise; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

British politician and 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

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