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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).

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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Maria Gowen Brooks: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Mary Abigail Gowen Brooks • Maria del Occidente
Born	1794? • Medford • Massachusetts
Died	November 11, 1845 • Matanzas • Cuba
Notable Works	“Zóphiël: or, The Bride of Seven”

Jack Kerouac

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Theodore Dreiser

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Sylvia Plath

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Gwendolyn Brooks

American poet and educator

Langston Hughes

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Maya Angelou

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John G. Neihardt

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Robert Lowell

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Gordon Parks

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Paul Auster

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Gertrude Stein

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Harriet Monroe

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Daniel Berrigan

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H.D.

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Thomas Merton

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Amiri Baraka

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Maxine Hong Kingston

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James Agee

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Sandra Cisneros

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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

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

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

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