Amy Lowell

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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).

World Poetry Day

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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

Girl Reading On Turquoise Couch

9 American Countercultural Books

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Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Amy Lowell: Facts & Related Content

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Born	February 9, 1874 • Brookline • Massachusetts
Died	May 12, 1925 (aged 51) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize (1926)
Notable Works	“A Critical Fable” • “Can Grande’s Castle”
Movement / Style	Imagists
Notable Family Members	brother Percival Lowell

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

Merwin, W.S.

W.S. Merwin

American poet

Mona Van Duyn

Mona Van Duyn

American poet

Ashbery, John

John Ashbery

American poet

Sara Teasdale.

Sara Teasdale

American poet

Richard Howard

American author

Richard Wilbur

American poet

Donald Justice

American poet and editor

Karl Shapiro

American poet

Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe

American poet

Carl Sandburg.

Carl Sandburg

American poet and historian

Robert Frost, 1954

Robert Frost

American poet

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown

American poet

Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks

American poet and educator

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

American author

Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa

American writer

Robert Lowell, c. 1960

Robert Lowell

American poet

Charles Wright

Charles Wright

American poet

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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

A Study of Poetry