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Match Poets to some of their most well know works and lines from those works

Information	Poet
Poet at the Inauguration of John F Kennedy	Robert Frost
Wrote The Road not Taken	Robert Frost
Wrote Fire and Ice	Robert Frost
Wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost
Wrote that "Good fences make good neighbors"	Robert Frost
Wrote about Death, Dying, and Immortality	Emily Dickinson
Wore primarily white clothing and was a recluse	Emily Dickinson
Wrote Success is Counted Sweetest.	Emily Dickinson
Wrote I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I died	Emily Dickinson
Wrote Wild Nights, Wild Nights	Emily Dickinson
Wrote A Bird Came Down the Walk	Emily Dickinson
Wrote I'm Nobody, Who Are You?	Emily Dickinson
Wrote horror stories and poems and invented Detective Fiction	Edgar Allen Poe
Wrote The Raven	Edgar Allen Poe
Wrote The Tell-Tale Heart	Edgar Allen Poe
Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher	Edgar Allen Poe
Wrote A Dream Within a Dream	Edgar Allen Poe
Wrote To Helen	Edgar Allen Poe
Was called "The Good Grey Poet"	Walt Whitman
Wrote Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman
Wrote Oh Captain, My Captain	Walt Whitman
Wrote Song of Myself	Walt Whitman
Wrote I Hear America Singing	Walt Whitman
Poet at Barack Obama's Inauguration	Maya Angelou
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama	Maya Angelou
Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
Wrote And Still I Rise	Maya Angelou
Wrote I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud	William Wordsworth
Wrote The Prelude	William Wordsworth
Wrote Mending Wall	Robert Frost
Wrote Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	William Wordsworth
Was part of the "Harlem Renaissance"	Langston Hughes
Known for writing Jazz Poetry	Langston Hughes
Wrote Harlem	Langston Hughes
Wrote Mother to Son	Langston Hughes
Wrote I, Too	Langston Hughes
Wrote The Weary Blues	Langston Hughes
Known for writing Children's Poetry	Shel Silverstien
Wrote A Boy Named Sue	Shel Silverstien
Wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstien
Wrote The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstien
Wrote A Light In the Attic	Shel Silverstien
Wrote Falling Up	Shel Silverstien
Had one of their poems preformed by Johnny Cash	Shel Silverstien
Was a professor at Harvard	Henry Longfellow
First American to Translate "The Divine Comedy"	Henry Longfellow
Wrote The Song of Hiawatha	Henry Longfellow
Wrote Paul Revere's Ride	Henry Longfellow
Wrote Evangeline	Henry Longfellow
National Poet of Scotland	Robert Burns
Wrote Alud L	Robert Burns
Wrote "Red Red Rose"	Robert Burns
Duo who collected folklore,	The Brothers Grimm
Works collected by them inspired a lot of Disney movies, such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White	The Brothers Grimm
Wrote Charge of the Light Brigade	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wrote In Mermoriam	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wrote that "Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all"	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wrote Crossing the Bar	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Known for writing about stories from the biblical Book of Genesis	John Milton
Wrote Paradise Lost	John Milton
Wrote about the mighty but overconfident Casey in a poem about a baseball game	Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Wrote Casey at the Bat, which is his most well-known work	Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Wrote about Jean Valijean (JOHN Val-JOHN) in Les Miserables	Victor Hugo
Wrote about Quasimodo (Protagonist), Esmeralda, and Claude Frollo (Antagonist) in the Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo
Wrote "Red Red Rose"	Robert Burns
Duo who collected folklore,	The Brothers Grimm
Works collected by them inspired a lot of Disney movies, such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White	The Brothers Grimm
Wrote Charge of the Light Brigade	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wrote In Mermoriam	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wrote that "Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all"	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wrote Crossing the Bar	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Known for writing about stories from the biblical Book of Genesis	John Milton
Wrote Paradise Lost	John Milton
Wrote about the mighty but overconfident Casey in a poem about a baseball game	Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Wrote Casey at the Bat, which is his most well-known work	Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Wrote about Jean Valijean (JOHN Val-JOHN) and Inspector Javert (Antagonist) in Les Miserables	Victor Hugo
Wrote about Quasimodo (Protagonist), Esmeralda, and Claude Frollo (Antagonist) in the Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo
Considered the GOAT of french writing	Victor Hugo
Was a French Anarchist Poet	Andre Breton
Wrote Howl	Allen Ginsberg
Wrote Elegy in a Churchyard	Thomas Grey
Chilean Poet who inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Pablo Neruda
Wrote The Tyger (That is the correct spelling)	William Blake
Wrote Faust	Geothe
Wrote The Divine Comedy	Dante
Wrote the Trojan war in Iliad	Homer
Wrote about Odysseus (Greek)/Ulysses (Roman) in the Odyssey.	Homer
Wrote about Jason and the Argonauts	Apollonius of Rhodes
Victorian Poet who wrote How do I Love Thee	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wrote Bell Jar (A novel) and committed suicide	Sylvia Plath
Wrote The Wasteland	T. S. Elliot
Wrote Do Not Gentile Into That Good Night	Dylan Thomas
Wrote 54 Plays and 154 sonnets in a form named after him	William Shakespeare
Wrote "To be or not to be" in Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Wrote about stuff happening in ancient Rome in The Tragedy of Julius Cesar	William Shakespeare
Wrote about four Athenians in A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare
Felix Mendelssohn and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed incidental music for his some of his plays	William Shakespeare
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature	William Butler Yeats
Wrote the Second Comming	William Butler Yeats
Wrote Easter 1916	William Butler Yeats
Wrote Brown Penny	William Butler Yeats
Wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn	John Keats
Wrote Eve of Saint Anges	John Keats
Wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Not the president with a similar last name)
Wrote Kubla Kahn	Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Not the president with a similar last name)
Wrote Ode to the West Wind	PERCY Shelly (Not Marry Shelly)
Wrote To a Skylark	PERCY Shelly (Not Marry Shelly)
Hung out with Lord Byron and Married the author of Frankenstein.	PERCY Shelly (Not Marry Shelly)
Wrote Frankenstein	MARRY Shelly (Not Percy Shelly)
Wrote Don Juan	Lord Byron
Wrote Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Lord Byron
Wrote She Walks in Beauty	Lord Byron
Known for not writing with proper punctuation and capitalization	e. e. cummings
English Metaphysical poet	John Donne

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