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Emily Dickinson () is recognised as one of the most startling and original poets in the English language, but was regarded as an eccentric in her lifetime — should this be a surprise?
December 10, 1830
Amherst, Massachusetts, US
May 15, 1886
Amherst, Massachusetts, US
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all.”
Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
— Emily Dickinson
“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.” “The brain is wider than the sky.”
A Book
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
READING LIST &c.
WRITERSAtwood, Margaret
Austen, Jane
Brontë sisters
Burton, Sir Richard
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Conrad, Joseph
Curtis, Adam
de Cervantes, Miguel
Dickens, Charles
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Faulkner, William
Forster, E. M.
García Márquez
Greene, Graham
Hardy, Thomas
Hemingway, Earnest
Huxley, Aldous
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Kureishi, Hanif
Lawrence, D. H.
Melville, Herman
Miller, Henry
Morrison, Toni
Nin, Anaïs
Orwell, George
Proust, Marcel
Roy, Anuradha
Rushdie, Salman
Şafak, Elif
Seneca
Smith, Zadie
Steinbeck, John
Tolstoy, Leo
Updike, John
Waugh, Evelyn
Wilde, Oscar
Woolf, Virginia
Zola, Émile
POETSAesop
Alighieri, Dante
Angelou, Maya
Blake, William
Byron, Lord
Catullus, Gaius
Coleridge, Samuel T.
Cummings, E. E.
Dickinson, Emily
Donne, John
Dryden, John
Eliot, T. S.
Frost, Robert
Gibran, Kahlil
Heaney, Seamus
Homer
Horace
Kaur, Rupi
Keats, John
Larkin, Philip
Marlowe, Christopher
Milton, John
Ovid
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pound, Ezra
Raleigh, Walter
Rumi
Sappho
Sexton, Anne
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy
Silverstein, Shel
Spenser, Edmund
Tennyson, Alfred
Virgil
Walcott, Derek
Whitman, Walt
Wyatt, Thomas
PHILOSOPHERSAntisthenes
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Bacon, Francis
Bentham, Jeremy
Cicero
Confucius
de Beauvoir, Simone
Democritus
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, René
Empedocles
Epicurus
Foucault, Michel
Hegel, Georg
Heraclitus
Hobbes, Thomas
Hume, David
John Stuart Mill
Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, Søren
Lao-Tzu
Locke, John
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Marcus Aurelius
Marx, Karl
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Paine, Tom
Parmenides
Plato
Plotinus
Pope Gregory I
Popper, Karl
Pythagoras
Rousseau, Jean
Russell, Bertrand
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Socrates
Spinoza, Baruch
St Augustine
Thales
Voltaire
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Zeno of Citium
PSYCHOLOGISTSBandura, Albert
Ekman, Paul
Erikson, Erik
Festinger, Leon
Freud, Sigmund
Horney, Karen
James, William
Johnson, Virginia
Jung, Carl
Kahneman, Daniel
Kinsey, Alfred
Klein, Melanie
Pavlov, Ivan
Piaget, Jean
Pinker, Steven
Rogers, Carl
Skinner, B. F.
Vygotsky, Lev
POLITICAL FIGURES
ⅰ Queen Boudica
ⅱ King Alfred the Great
ⅲ King Edward I
ⅳ King Henry V
ⅴ King Henry VIII
ⅵ Queen Elizabeth I
ⅶ King Charles II
ⅷ Queen Victoria
Berners-Lee, Tim
Chomsky, Noam
Columbus, Christopher
Copernicus, Nicolaus
da Vinci, Leonardo
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
Einstein, Albert
Fukuyama, Francis
Galilei, Galileo
Gutenberg, Johannes
Harari, Yuval
Hobsbawm, Eric
Lovelace, Ada
Michelangelo
Newton, Isaac
Saïd, Edward
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