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A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Born March 1, 1920 • New York City • New York
Died July 5, 1991 (aged 71) • Missouri
Title / Office poet laureate (1989-1990) • poet laureate (1988-1989)
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1981) • Pulitzer Prize (1978)
Notable Works “Blue Swallows” • “Inside the Onion” • “Mirrors and Windows” • “Sentences” • “The Homecoming Game” • “The Image and the Law” • “The Melodramatists” • “The Salt Garden” • “War Stories”
Subjects Of Study poetry

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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
James Merrill
American poet
Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Theodore Roethke
American poet
Richard Eberhart
American poet
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
Randall Jarrell
American poet and critic
John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic

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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:
Poetry: First Lines
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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