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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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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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:
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Pictures from Brueghel, collection of poetry by William Carlos Williams, published in 1962 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1963. In this volume Williams transcends the objectivist style of his earlier work, treating poetry as a medium for ideas as well as a means of depicting the physical world. Williams also explored new verse forms in the collection. Wanting to find a rhythm suited to American speech, he experimented with a version of free verse he termed versos sueltos (“loose verses”), which makes use of the triadic stanza and a variable foot measure.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.