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Also Known As Archie Randolph Ammons
Born February 18, 1926 • North Carolina
Died February 25, 2001 (aged 75) • Ithaca • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1995) • Bollingen Prize (1975)
Notable Works “A Coast of Trees” • “Sumerian Vistas”
Movement / Style Transcendentalism
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
American poet, scholar, and critic
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Robert Hass
American poet and translator
C.K. Williams
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
James Merrill
American poet
Hayden Carruth
American poet and literary critic
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Gary Snyder
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Louise Glück
Louise Glück
American poet
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Anthony Hecht
American poet

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