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Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões
Portuguese poet
Gil Vicente
Portuguese dramatist
José Saramago
José Saramago
Portuguese author
Vieira, António
António Vieira
Portuguese author and diplomat
Alexandre Herculano
Portuguese historian
Pessoa, Fernando
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet
Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco
Portuguese novelist
Antero Tarquínio de Quental
Portuguese poet
Eça de Queirós, José Maria de
José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Portuguese novelist
Francisco de Sá de Miranda
Portuguese author
Mariana Alcoforado
Portuguese nun
Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida, visconde (viscount) de Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett
Portuguese writer
José Maria Ferreira de Castro
Portuguese author
St. José de Anchieta
St. José de Anchieta
Portuguese author and scholar
Francisco Manuel de Melo
Portuguese author
António Feliciano de Castilho
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese poet and translator
Luís de Sousa
Portuguese historian
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
Caetano da Costa Alegre
African poet
José Luandino Vieira
Angolan author

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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:
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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”