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Born December 23, 1860 • Chicago • Illinois
Died September 26, 1936 (aged 75) • Arequipa • Peru
Founder “Poetry”
Movement / Style Chicago literary renaissance • Imagists

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Sterling Brown
American educator, literary critic and poet
Untermeyer, Louis
Louis Untermeyer
American author and editor
Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
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Mark Van Doren.
Mark Van Doren
American writer
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
S.S. Van Dine
American critic, editor, and author
Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
Karl Shapiro
American poet
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Carl Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet

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