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Famous Poets

Scholars' Bowl Famous Poets and their works

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Poems often set in Rural Life in New England Poet at the inauguration of John F Kennedy The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 1874-1963 Robert Frost
Poems deal with themes of DEATH & immortality Was a recluse Wore white clothing Success is Counted Sweetest, I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died, Wild Nights, Wild Nights, A Bird Came Down the Walk, I'm Nobody, Who are You? 1830-1886 Emily Dickinson
Wrote horror stories & poems Inventor of detective fiction The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, A Dream Within a Dream, To Helen 1809-1849 Edgar Allen Poe
The "Good Gray Poet" Leaves of Grass, Oh Captain my Captain, Song of Myself, I Hear America Singing 1819-1892 Walt Whitman
Civil Rights activist Poet at Barack Obama's inauguration Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And I Still Rise 1928-2014 Maya Angelou
England's Poet Laureate Helped romanticism take hold in English poetry I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud, The Prelude 1770-1850 William Wordsworth
Work was part of the "Harlem Renaissance" Known for his Jazz Poetry Wrote plays and books as well as poetry Harlem, Mother to Son, I, too, The Weary Blues 1902-1967 Langston Hughes
Best known for his children's poetry Wrote "A Boy Named Sue" performed by Johnny Cash Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up 1930-1999 Shel Silverstein
Professor at Harvard First American to translate Dante's "The Divine Comedy" The Sound of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride, Evangeline 1807-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
National poet of Scotland Wrote "Auld Lang Syne" and "Red Red Rose" 1759-1796 Robert Burns
Duo that collected and published folklore. They are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales "Cinderella", "Hansel and Gretel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Snow White". Brothers Grimm
English Poet He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign preceding "Charge of the Light Brigade," (Crimean War) "In Memoriam," Quote from his poetry: "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all" Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English Poet Wrote Paradise Lost - a retelling of the story of Adam and Eve from the biblical book of Genesis which describes the creation of Heaven and Earth and of Adam and Eve. John Milton
American writer and poet Most famous for writing "Casey at the Bat" which tells the story of a baseball team playing in Mudville trailing in the ninth inning and the hopes of victory rest on the shoulders of the mighty but overconfident Casey. Ernest Lawrence Thayer
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