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W.D. Snodgrass
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Also Known As William DeWitt Snodgrass • S. S. Gardons
Born January 5, 1926 • Pennsylvania
Died January 13, 2009 (aged 83) • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “Heart’s Needle” • “The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress”
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Mark Van Doren.
Mark Van Doren
American writer
Anthony Hecht
American poet
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Karl Shapiro
American poet
Robert Frost, 1954
Robert Frost
American poet
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
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
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Charles Wright
Charles Wright
American poet
Gary Snyder
American poet
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith
American poet and author
Maxine Kumin
American author

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