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american poets&works
american poetry with their authors
Term | Definition |
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This 20th century poet wrote the poems Daddy, Lady Lazarus, and Mad Girl's Love Song. | Sylvia Plath |
This poet was considered one of the most respected Beat writers of his generation. He wrote poets such as A Supermarket in California, Howl, and Kaddish. | Allen Ginsberg |
This poet and civil rights activist wrote the poems Still I Rise, Caged Bird, and Awaking in New York. | Maya Angelou |
This post-war poet wrote the works Risk, Brought to Love, and August Sun. | Robert Duncan |
This poet wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Road Not Taken, and The Death of a Hired Man. | Robert Frost |
This poet is a major figure in the modernist poetry movement, and wrote In a Station of Metro, Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, and The Seafarer. | Ezra Pound |
This 19th century poet from Massachusetts, wrote the poems In this Short Life that Only Lasts an Hour, I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died, and I Know that He Exists. | Emily Dickenson |
This modern poet wrote the works Since Feeling is First, I Carry Your Heart With Me, and Buffalo Bill. | E.E. Cummings |
This New England poet, who expanded his work away from the Western way of thinking, towards Asian and Middle Eastern works. He wrote Dirge, Song of Nature, and Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead. | Ralph Waldo Emmerson |