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George Seferis
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).
World Poetry Day
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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.
7 Deadliest Weapons in History
Happy, smiling, flying pig
7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From
Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"
How Deadly Is Quicksand?
Aspirin pills.
7 Drugs that Changed the World
Drinking water is poured into a glass.
Water Fluoridation: Just the Facts
Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere
Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

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Also Known As Yeoryios Stilianou Sepheriades • Giōrgios Stylianou Seferiadēs
Born March 13, 1900 • İzmir • Turkey
Died September 20, 1971 (aged 71) • Athens • Greece
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1963)
Movement / Style Symbolism
Johannes V. Jensen
Danish author
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Odysseus Elytis
Odysseus Elytis
Greek poet
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
The Shakespeare of his generation
Bob Dylan
American musician
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Louise Glück
Louise Glück
American poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Joseph Brodsky, 1988
Joseph Brodsky
American poet
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan author and diplomat
Gabriela Mistral, 1941.
Gabriela Mistral
Chilean poet
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian author
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic

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