POETS & POETRY
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| ANNABEL LEE | show 🗑
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| ARIEL | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT BURNS
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| show | POE
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| show | ROBERT BROWNING
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| show | ERNEST THAYER
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| THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS | show 🗑
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| show | TENNYSON
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| CHICAGO POEMS | show 🗑
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| THE CONCORD HYMN | show 🗑
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| show | TENNYSON
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| show | DONNE
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| DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THE GOOD NIGHT | show 🗑
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| show | KEATS
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| show | THOMAS GREY
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| EVANGELINE | show 🗑
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| show | EDMUND SPENCER
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| FOG | show 🗑
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| GUNGA DIN | show 🗑
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| HOWL | show 🗑
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| IF | show 🗑
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| show | TENNYSON
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| show | LEWIS CARROLL
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| show | STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
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| show | SAMEUL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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| LADY OF THE LAKE | show 🗑
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| show | THOMAS MACAULAY
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| show | WHITMAN
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| LYRICAL BALLADS | show 🗑
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| MENDING WALL | show 🗑
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| THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE | show 🗑
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| THE NEW COLOSSUS | show 🗑
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| O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN | show 🗑
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| show | KEATS
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| ODE ON A GRECIAN URN | show 🗑
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| ODE TO THE WEST WIND | show 🗑
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| show | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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| show | ROBERT BROWNING
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| show | EZRA POUND
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| THE RAPE OF THE LOCK | show 🗑
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| THE RAVEN | show 🗑
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| THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER | show 🗑
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| THE ROAD NOT TAKEN | show 🗑
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| show | OMAR KHAYYAM
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| SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY | show 🗑
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| show | WHITTIER
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| show | LONGFELLOW
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| show | WHITMAN
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| show | BLAKE
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| show | BLAKE
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| show | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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| show | EDGAR LEE MASTERS
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| STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING | show 🗑
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| show | LONGFELLOW
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| show | ROBERT BURNS
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| THANATOPSIS | show 🗑
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| show | JOYCE KILMER
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| show | BLAKE
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| show | WORDSWORTH
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| show | ROBERT BURNS
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| show | ROBERT BURNS
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| TO A SKYLARK | show 🗑
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| THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH | show 🗑
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| show | CLEMENT MOORE
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| THE WALRUS & THE CARPENTER | show 🗑
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| THE WASTE LAND | show 🗑
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| WHAT'S O'CLOCK? | show 🗑
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| show | JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
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| show | LONGFELLOW
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| show | T.S. ELIOT
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| show | KEATS
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| "PLOWMAN" POET | show 🗑
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| show | WORDSWORTH
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| show | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
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| LIMERICK WRITER, 1870S | show 🗑
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| LIMERICK WRITER FOR THE NEW YORKER | show 🗑
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| show | SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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| "THE BELL OF AMHERST" | show 🗑
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| show | KEATS & SHELLY
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| show | ICELAND
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| TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GEORGE WASHINGTON | show 🗑
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| TO A WATERFOWL | show 🗑
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| show | POE
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| show | POE
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| show | LONGFELLOW
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| I HEAR AMERICA SINGING | show 🗑
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| show | WHITMAN
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| show | WHITMAN
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| show | DICKINSON
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| show | DICKINSON
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| THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY | show 🗑
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| SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST | show 🗑
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| show | DICKINSON
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| BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH | show 🗑
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| I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED | show 🗑
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| RICHARD CORY | show 🗑
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| show | ROBINSON
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| show | ELIOT
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| THE HOLLOW MEN | show 🗑
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| show | WILLIAMS
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| FIRE & ICE | show 🗑
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| show | FROST
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| show | FROST
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| THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN | show 🗑
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| show | PLATH
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| show | PLATH
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| THE NEGRO SPEAKS | show 🗑
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| RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS | show 🗑
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| show | MILLAY
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| show | MILLAY
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| show | LANGSTON HUGHES
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| show | BYRON
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| show | T.S. ELIOT
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| "CHAMELEONS FEED ON LIGHT AND AIR; POETS' FOOD IS LOVE AND FAME"... | show 🗑
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| show | POE
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| HIS "DIVINE COMEDY" IS 100 CANTOS WRITTEN IN TERZA RIMA... | show 🗑
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| show | JOHN DONNE
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| show | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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| CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE | show 🗑
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| THE INITIALS W.H. IN THIS POET'S NAME STOOD FOR WYSTAN HUGH... | show 🗑
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| show | MENDING WALL
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| "MY CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS, IT WILL NOT LAST THE NIGHT" | show 🗑
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| "WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK" | show 🗑
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| HIS EPIC POEM "THE AENEID" BEGINS WHEN A TROJAN HERO & HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SHIPWRECKED NEAR CARTHAGE... | show 🗑
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| show | DYLAN THOMAS
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| ONE OF 2 BROTHERS OF NOVELIST & POET LAURA BENET WHO WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY... | show 🗑
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| "THE HOLY GRAIL" AND "GUINEVERE" ARE AMONG THE POEMS CONTAINED IN THIS TENNYSON WORK... | show 🗑
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| TYPE OF CREATURE OF WHICH DICKINSON WROTE, " A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS OCCASIONALLY RIDES" ... | show 🗑
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| show | AN ANVIL
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| "EYES THE SHADY NIGHT HAS SHUT CANNOT SEE THE RECORD CUT" WROTE HOUSMAN TO ONE OF THESE "DYING YOUNG"... | show 🗑
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| FITTINGLY, THE LAST SECTION OF "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" IS ENTITLED THIS TYPE OF INSCRIPTION... | show 🗑
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| HIS MASTERPIECE POEM "DON JUAN" IS DIVIDED INTO CANTOS... | show 🗑
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| show | WINE
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| RIMBAUD HAD QUITE A BIT OF TEEN ANGST, AS IN HIS BOOK TITLE "UNE SAISON EN ENFER", A SEASON HERE... | show 🗑
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| show | SIR WALTER SCOTT
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| show | ALLAN GINSBERG
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| IN 1922 THIS POET AND LINCOLN BIOGRAPHER WROTE "ROOTABAGA STORIES" TO ENTERTAIN HIS 3 DAUGHTERS... | show 🗑
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| show | BE
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| ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE SHOULD GIVE THANKS TO THIS SCOTTISH POET FOR HIS "AULD LANG SYNE" | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT FROST
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| show | ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
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| AMONG HIS POETRY COLLECTIONS IS 1942'S "SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM" | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE TITLE OF THE LONGFELLOW POEM THAT BEGINS, "UNDER THE SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE" | show 🗑
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| show | KEATS
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| show | ALAN SEEGER
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| show | MANHATTAN
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| show | WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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| ALTHOUGH PUBLISHED AS A SEPARTE VOLUME IN 1865, WHITMAN'S "DRUM-TAPS" WAS LATER INCLUDED IN THIS WORK... | show 🗑
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| IN 1945 THIS POET LAUREATE OF ILLINOIS PUBLISHED HER FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY... | show 🗑
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| show | TENNYSON
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| HE FINISHED WRITING "EVANGELINE" ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY... | show 🗑
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| "SELDOM DOES A FIRST BOOK CONTAIN SO FEW UNSUCCESSFUL THINGS", SAID AMY LOWELL OF HIS "CHICAGO POEMS"... | show 🗑
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| show | THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK
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| THOUGH BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS VERSE DEALING WITH NEW ENGLAND LIFE, AS IN "NORTH OF BOSTON"... | show 🗑
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| show | IN FLANDERS FIELDS
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| show | ROBERT BROWNING
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| show | THE FAERIE QUEEN
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| ROMANTIC POET WHO WROTE, "ST. AGNES'S EVE--AH, BITTER CHILL IT WAS! THE OWL, FOR ALL HIS FEATHERS, WAS A-COLD" | show 🗑
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| LONGFELLOW WROTE, " TELL ME NOT" THAT "LIFE IS BUT AN EMPTY" THIS... | show 🗑
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| show | SYLVIA PLATH
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| BYRON WROTE, "WHO KILLED" THIS POET? "I, SAYS THE QUARTERLY, SO SAVAGE AND TARTARLY; TWAS ONE OF MY FEATS" | show 🗑
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| "IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?" | show 🗑
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| IN "NEW HAMPSHIRE" HE WROTE, "DO YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING THE MARKET, THERE ARE MORE POEMS PRODUCED THAN ANY OTHER THING?" | show 🗑
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| "THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK" | show 🗑
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| show | THOMAS HARDY
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| show | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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| HE WROTE HIS POEM "TO THE CUCKOO" IN AN ORCHARD IN GRASMERE... | show 🗑
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| show | SHELLEY
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| show | THE RAVEN
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| THIS ROBERT FROST POEM BEGINS, "TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A YELLOW WOOD" | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE PERSONAL 3-WORD TITLE OF THE LONGEST POEM IN WALT WHITMAN'S "LEAVES OF GRASS" | show 🗑
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| show | THE NEW COLOSSUS
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| IN AN ELEGY, SHELLEY SAID THIS POET'S SOUL "LIKE A STAR, BEACONS FROM THE ABODE WHERE THE ETERNAL ARE"... | show 🗑
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| show | KIPLING
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| IN 1677 JOHN DRYDEN WROTE "ALL FOR LOVE", A PLAY ADAPTED FROM THIS SHAKESPEARE WORK... | show 🗑
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| "THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" ASKS, "SHALL I PART MY HAIR BEHIND? DO I DARE TO EAT" THIS FRUIT? | show 🗑
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| show | BEAUTY IS TRUTH; TRUTH BEAUTY
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| HIS "DOVER BEACH" MENTIONS THE FRENCH COAST AND THE CLIFFS OF ENGLAND... | show 🗑
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| show | ANNE BRADSTREET
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| SHAKESPEARE SAID OF THIS HANDSOME MYTHOLOGICAL MAN, "HUNTING HE LOV'D, BUT OVE HE LAUGH'D TO SCORN"... | show 🗑
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| BYRON'S 1814 ODE TO HIM SAYS, "NOR TILL THY FALL COULD MORTALS GUESS AMBITION'S LESS THAN LITTLENESS!" | show 🗑
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| show | LOCHINVAR
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| show | ARISTOTLE
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| show | ODE
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| show | MUSES
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| show | IAMBS
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| AN ABECEDARIAN POEM IS MARKED BY ADHERENCE TO THIS | show 🗑
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| show | NIGHTINGALE
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| show | I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
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| show | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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| "THE TREE HAS ENTERED MY HANDS, THE SAP HAS ASCENDED MY ARMS..." | show 🗑
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| "SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY? THOU ART MORE LOVELY A ND MORE TEMPERATE..." | show 🗑
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| "STOP ALL THE CLOCKS, CUT OFF THE TELEPHONE, PREVENT THE DOG FROM BARKING WITH JUICY BONE... | show 🗑
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| show | OZYMANDIAS (SHELLEY)
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| "GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY, OLD TIME IS STILL A-FLYING" | show 🗑
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| ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED, WEAK AND WEARY" | show 🗑
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| HE IS STARK MAD, WHO EVER SAYS, THAT HE HATH BEEN IN LOVE AN HOUR... | show 🗑
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| "TWAS BRILLIG, AND THE SLITHY TOVES..." | show 🗑
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| show | CASEY AT THE BAT (ERNEST THAYER)
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| show | THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK
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| "I CELEBRATE MYSELF, AND SING MYSELF, AND WHAT I ASSUME YOU SHALL ASSUME..." | show 🗑
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| "OF MAN'S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE, AND THE FRUIT OF THAT FORBIDDEN TREE WHOSE MORTAL TASTE..." | show 🗑
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| "THE RAIN SET EARLY IN TONIGHT, THE SULLEN WIND WAS SOON AWAKE, IT TORE THE ELM-TOPS DOWN FOR SPITE..." | show 🗑
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| show | THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (TENNYSON)
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| show | WILLIAM BLAKE
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| show | YEATS
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| show | MILTON
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| FOR HIS GREATEST POEM, EDMUND SPENSER INVENTED A LAND CALLED THIS AND ITS QUEENE | show 🗑
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| THIS MATTHEW ARNOLD POEM SAYS, "ON THE FRENCH COAST THE LIGHT GLEAMS" AND "THE CLIFFS OF ENGLAND STAND GLIMMERING" | show 🗑
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| show | TROUBADORS
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| THE NAME OF THIS FRENCH POET, A SUBJECT IN VERLAINE'S "THE DAMNED POETS", SOUNDS LIKE A STALLONE ROLE | show 🗑
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| THE BOATHOUSE, THIS POET'S WRITING SHED IN LAUGHARNE, WALES, IS NOW A MUSEUM | show 🗑
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| IN THE EARLY 14TH-C., HE CALLED HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK "A COMEDY" BECAUSE OF ITS SAD BEGINNING AND HAPPY ENDING | show 🗑
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| HIS FATHER CAME FROM RUSSIAN NOBILITY; HIS MOTHER WAS DESCENDED FROM AN AFRICAN PRINCE | show 🗑
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| show | ARTHUR RIMBAUD
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| THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE OPENED IN 1899 WITH THIS CO-FOUNDER'S DRAMA "THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN" | show 🗑
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| SHE POETIZED, "LIFE, BELIEVE, IS NOT A DREAM SO DARK AS SAGES SAY"; JANE EYRE COULD HAVE USED THOSE THOUGHTS | show 🗑
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| IN 1885 HE PUT OUT THE QUIET, "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES" | show 🗑
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| show | HERMANN HESSE
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| show | LOCHINVAR
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| show | THE BELL JAR
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| show | HIAWATHA
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| show | BYRON
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| show | DANTE
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| A POEM OF HERS SAYS, "I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE!" | show 🗑
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| show | LORD BYRON
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| HIS "POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1786 IN KILMARNOCK AND SOLD 600 COPIES | show 🗑
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| IN "DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS", HE WROTE, "NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ENTIRE OF ITSELF" | show 🗑
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| THIS EPIC POEM BY VIRGIL BEGINS WHEN A TROJAN HERO AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SHIPWRECKED NEAR CARTHAGE | show 🗑
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| show | COLERIDGE
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| show | WILLIAM BLAKE
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| show | WHITMAN
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| show | WORDSWORTH
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| HIS "LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" SAYS, "IN THE ROOM THE WOMEN COME AND GO/ TALKING OF MICHELANGELO" | show 🗑
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| RICHARD CORY, "A GENTLEMAN FROM SOLE TO CROWN" IN A POEM BY THIS MAN, "PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" | show 🗑
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| show | W.H. AUDEN
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| show | TENNEYSON
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| IN 1827 HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY A "EDGAR A. PERRY" | show 🗑
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| IN 1900 HIS GRANDFATHER BOUGHT HIM A CHICKEN FARM NEAR DERRY, NH | show 🗑
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| HE WROTE, "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE UP A DARK ALLEY WITH CAESAR BORGIA AND HE WAS COMING TORGIA" | show 🗑
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| show | MARK (VAN DOREN)
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| show | LONGFELLOW
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| show | ROOST
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| THIS POETRY COLLECTION HAD A FOLLOW-UP, "THE NEW SPOON RIVER" | show 🗑
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| IN ARABIC "RUBAI'I" REFERS TO A TYPE OF 4-LINE VERSE, AND THIS BOOK IS A BOOK OF THEM, LIKE OMAR KHAYYAM'S | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT FROST
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| "THE LAMB" AND "THE SHEPHERD" ARE FOUND IN THESE WILLIAM BLAKE "SONGS" FROM 1789 | show 🗑
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| CRITIC HIPPOLYTE BABOU SUGGESTED THE TITLE OF BAUDELAIRE'S "LES FLEURS DU MAL", WHICH TRANSLATES AS THIS | show 🗑
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| IN THE 78TH OF THESE SACRED POEMS, MANNA IS REFERRED TO AS "THE CORN OF HEAVEN" AND "ANGEL'S FOOD" | show 🗑
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| "PEACE" BE WITH THIS MEXICAN, WHO PUBLISHED "LUNA SILVESTRE", HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, WHEN HE WAS 19 | show 🗑
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| show | ETHAN COEN
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| show | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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| show | CATS
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| IN 1913 HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS AS WELL AS "SONS AND LOVERS" | show 🗑
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| show | TREES
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| THIS QUINTESSENTIAL NEW ENGLANDER PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, "A BOY'S WILL", WHILE LIVING IN ENGLAND IN 1913 | show 🗑
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| show | SONG OF SONGS
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| show | WALT WHITMAN
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| show | LAMENTATIONS
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| IN 1998 THIS YOUNG POP STAR PUBLISHED HER POEMS IN THE BOOK "A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR" | show 🗑
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| show | MICHAEL ONDAATJE
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| show | LEAVES OF GRASS
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| THIS MISSISSIPPI-BORN NOVELIST PUBLISHED HIS 2ND AND LAST BOOK OF POEMS, "A GREEN BOUGH", IN 1933 | show 🗑
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| show | SONG OF SOLOMON
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| show | DICKINSON
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| "I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY, AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE" | show 🗑
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| "RATS! THEY FOUGHT THE DOGS, AND KILLED THE CATS, AND BIT THE BABIES IN THE CRADLES" | show 🗑
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| show | THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
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| show | FORD MADDOX FORD
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| show | MINNEHAHA
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| IN "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN", LITTLE EVA'S NAME IS ACTUALLY THIS, LIKE THE HEROINE OF A LONGFELLOW POEM | show 🗑
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| show | TAM-O-SHANTER
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| THE POEM CALLED THE "GARIBNAMEH" CONTAINS 11,000 MASNAVI, WHICH WE KNOW AS THESE RHYMED 2-LINE UNITS OF VERSE | show 🗑
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| show | FINLANDIA
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| ANDREA D'AGNOLO DI FRANCESCO IS BETTER KNOWN B THIS NAME FOUND IN THE TITLE OF ROBERT BROWNING'S POEM ABOUT HIM | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT BROWNING
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| THE NAME OF THIS TYPE OF POEM IS FROM THE JAPANESE FOR "STANZA" | show 🗑
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| RICHARD CORY, "A GENTLEMAN FROM SOLE TO CROWN" IN A POEM BY THIS 3-NAMED MAN, "PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" | show 🗑
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| show | THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
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| A TYPE OF HUMOROUS POEM BEARS THE NAME OF THIS IRISH PORT CITY | show 🗑
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| THIS OHIO CITY WAS CALLED THE "QUEEN OF THE WEST" EVEN BEFORE A LONGFELLOW POEM POPULARIZED THE NICKNAME | show 🗑
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| USERMATRE, ONE OF RAMSES' NAMES, EVOLVED INTO THIS TITLE OF A SHELLEY POEM ABOUT A SHATTERED STATUE OF RAMSES | show 🗑
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| show | PETRARCH
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| DYLAN THOMAS: "RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT" | show 🗑
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| WHITMAN: "DO I CONTRADICT MYSELF? VERY WELL THEN I CONTRADICT MYSELF" | show 🗑
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| ANDREW MARVELL: "HAD WE BUT WORLD ENOUGH, AND TIME, THIS COYNESS, LADY, WERE NO CRIME" | show 🗑
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| KEATS: "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER; ITS LOVELINESS INCREASES" | show 🗑
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| T.S.ELIOT: "LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I, WHEN THE EVENING IS SPREAD OUT AGAINST THE SKY" | show 🗑
|
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| WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAS JUST 17 WHEN HE WROTE THIS POEM WHOSE NAME COMES FROM THE GREEK FOR "VIEW OF DEATH" | show 🗑
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| ATTILA THE HUN APPEARS UNDER THE NAME ETZEL IN THIS 13TH-C. GERMAN EPIC POEM LATER ADAPTED INTO A WAGNER WORK | show 🗑
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| show | REINDEER
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| IN A NONSENSE POEM, LEWIS CARROLL WARNED "BEWARE" OF THIS CREATURE, "MY SON" | show 🗑
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| A LORD BYRON POEM INSPIRED THIS GREAT FRENCH ROMANTIC PAINTER'S "THE DEATH OF SARDANAPALUS" | show 🗑
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| THIS SYNONYM FOR GIBBERISH COMES FROM THE NAME OF A LEWIS CARROLL POEM | show 🗑
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| show | WHITMAN
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| show | TRINITY
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| show | H.D.
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| THIS PLAYWRIGHT, A "BLITHE SPIRIT", WROTE HIS "CHELSEA BUNS" POEMS UNDER THE PEN NAME HERNIA WHITTLEBOT | show 🗑
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| THIS SONNETEER'S "CANZONIERE" CONSISTS OF 366 POEMS, MANY OF THEM LOVE LYRICS TO A MYSTERY LADY NAMED LAURA | show 🗑
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| IN A MOCK-EPIC POEM BY BYRON, THE NAME OF THIS LEGENDARY SPANISH RAKE RHYMES WITH "NEW ONE" | show 🗑
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| show | RAGAMUFFIN
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| THE BOOJUM TREE WAS NAMED FOR THE MYSTERIOUS MONSTER IN HIS POEM, "THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK" | show 🗑
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| show | INDIA
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| show | EDGAR LEE MASTERS
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|
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| FREDERICK ASHTON'S BALLET, "THE LADY OF SHALLOT" IS BASED ON THIS MAN'S POEM OF THE SAME NAME | show 🗑
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| show | IDYLLS OF THE KING
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|
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| WALT WHITMAN CALLED THIS "THE BEAUTIFUL UNCUT HAIR OF GRAVES" | show 🗑
|
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| show | THE EMERALD ISLE
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| "HE IS ALL PINE, AND I AM APPLE ORCHARD. MY APPLE TREES WILL NEVER GET ACROSS AND EAT THE CONES UNDER HIS PINES" | show 🗑
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| THIS REAL MAN INSPIRED A 1719 NOVEL CHARACTER AND A POEM THAT SAYS, "I AM MONARCH OF ALL I SURVEY" | show 🗑
|
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| show | THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
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|
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| IN 1341 THE ROMAN SENATE CROWNED THIS SONNETEER POET LAUREATE | show 🗑
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| show | LAUREATE
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|
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| show | SWINBURNE
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|
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| THIS AUTHOR OF 1935'S "MULATTO" WAS REFERRED TO AS "THE POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM" | show 🗑
|
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| WHEN HE BECAME BRITAIN'S POET LAUREATE IN 1968, HIS SON DANIEL WAS 10 | show 🗑
|
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| IN 2006 DONALD HALL, KNOWN FOR POEMS ABOUT HIS WIFE, JANE KENYON, WAS LAUDED AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT AS THIS | show 🗑
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| show | GWENDOLYN BROOKS
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|
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| IN 1850 THE ATHENAEUM SUGGESTED THAT SHE SUCCEED WORDSWORTH AS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE | show 🗑
|
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| THE USA'S FIRST POET LAUREATE, HE TAUGHT AT LSU FROM 1934-42 AND EDITED THE SOUTHERN REVIEW | show 🗑
|
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| THE 1ST COMMISSION OF ANDREW MOTION, APPOINTED ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE IN 1999, WAS TO COMPOSE A LITTLE DITTY FOR THIS PRINCE'S WEDDING | show 🗑
|
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| IN 1843, 36 YEARS AFTER HE "WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD", HE WAS NAMED ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE | show 🗑
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| show | TED HUGHES
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|
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| IN 1852, THIS POET LAUREATE AND LORD WROTE HIS "ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON" | show 🗑
|
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| POET LAUREATE OF THE U.S. FROM 1993-1995, SHE WON A 1987 PULITZER FOR "THOMAS AND BEULAH" | show 🗑
|
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| show | TENNYSON
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|
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| show | RITA DOVE
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|
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| show | THOMAS GRAY
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|
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| THIS ACTOR IS THE SON OF A BRITISH POET LAUREATE AND THE SON-IN-LAW OF PLAYWRIGHT ARTHUR MILLER | show 🗑
|
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| ROBERT SOUTHEY'S PORSE COLLECTION, "THE DOCTOR", FEATURED THIS URSINE NURSERY STORY | show 🗑
|
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| show | ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
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|
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| HE WROTE "NOTHING CAN BRING BACK THE HOUR OF SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS, OF GLORY IN THE FLOWER" | show 🗑
|
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| show | WORDSWORTH
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|
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| show | TENNYSON
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|
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| ENGLAND'S FIRST POET LAUREATE, APPOINTED FOR LIFE IN 1668 | show 🗑
|
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| show | TENNYSON
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|
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| show | GWENDOLYN BROOKS
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|
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| show | LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
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|
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| HE WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1850-1892, LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE | show 🗑
|
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| IN "EUGENE ONEGIN", PUSHKIN WROTE, "NOW SOUTHWARD SWEPT THE CARAVAN OF THE WILD"...THESE, "A NOISY CLAN" | show 🗑
|
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| show | HENRY V
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|
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| "WE WILL EAT OUR MULLETS, SOUSED IN WINES", AND "SUP PHEASANTS' EGGS", THIS ELIZABETHEAN DRAMATIST WROTE IN "THE ALCHEMIST" | show 🗑
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| show | EMILY DICKINSON
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|
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| show | FROST
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|
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| A FAMOUS LINE IN A JAMES WELDON JOHNSON POEM SAYS, "YOUNG MAN---YOUNG MAN---YOUR ARM'S TOO SHORT TO..." DO THIS | show 🗑
|
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| show | EZRA POUND
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|
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| show | MAY
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|
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| show | BYRON
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|
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| THE ROSSETTIS PUBLISHED POEMS IN THE GERM, A SHORT-LIVED MAGAZINE FROM THIS ARTSY GROUP | show 🗑
|
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| HE WROTE, "MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD A RAINBOW IN THE SKY" IN THE EARLY 1800S AT GRASMERE | show 🗑
|
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| IN A POEM IN THIS 1855 COLLECTION, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS "WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" | show 🗑
|
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| "A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD--AND THOU" IS A LINE FROM THIS OMAR KHAYYAM WORK | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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|
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| show | T.S. ELIOT
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|
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| show | BYRON
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|
||||
| show | METAPHYSICAL POETS
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|
||||
| THE FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS POPULARIZED THIS, A TERM WHOSE FRENCH TRANSLATION IS VERS LIBRE | show 🗑
|
||||
| AMONG OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOL NICKNAMES ARE THE BRANDEIS JUDGES AND THE WHITTIER THESE | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS HERO WENT "FORTH UPON THE GITCHE GUMEE...WITH HIS FISHING-LINE OF CEDAR" TO CATCH A STURGEON | show 🗑
|
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| FOR WRITING THE PAMPHLET "THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM", THIS "ODE TO THE WEST WIND" POET WAS EXPELLED FROM OXFORD | show 🗑
|
||||
| THE FIRST LINE OF THIS POEM IS "SING, GODDESS, THE ANGER OF PELEUS'S SON ACHILLES" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | YEATS
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|
||||
| show | THE TRUTH
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|
||||
| POEM IN WHICH KEATS WROTE, "HEARD MEMORIES ARE SWEET, BUT THOSE UNHEARD ARE SWEETER" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE KNEW A LOT ABOUT "STONE WALLS": HE WAS IMPRISONED IN 1642 AND 1648 AND WROTE FAMOUS POEMS BOTH TIMES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CHAUCER
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|
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| show | FROST
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|
||||
| show | ROBERT LOWELL
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|
||||
| IN 1995 THIS SEAMUS FROM IRELAND DETECTED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE COMING HIS WAY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SAPPHO
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|
||||
| show | ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD
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|
||||
| THIS POEM BEGINS, "ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| THE POETRY OF ATTILO JOZSEF, IMMORTALIZING HIS WASHERWOMAN MOTHER, IS A MONUMENT OF THIS LANGUAGE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | WHITMAN
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|
||||
| "THE CARRIAGE HELD BUT JUST OURSELVES AND IMMORTALITY" IS A FAMOUS LINE FROM A POEM BY THIS WOMAN | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN "ENDYMION" HE WROTE, "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1945 THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY'S GABRIELA MISTRAL WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | show 🗑
|
||||
| A POEM BY POE PURPORTS TO BE THE CONFESSION OF THIS LAME ASIATIC CONQUEROR, ALSO A CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE SUBJECT | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | WHITMAN
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|
||||
| show | EDWARD LEAR
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|
||||
| IN 1945 THIS POET WAS ELECTED A SENATOR IN CHILE | show 🗑
|
||||
| "ONE CALM SUMMER NIGHT" THIS CHARACTER "WENT HOME AND PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" | show 🗑
|
||||
| TENNYSON'S "THE LOTUS EATERS" IS BASED ON AN EPISODE FROM THIS WORK OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN AN ERNEST THAYER POEM, COONEY, BURROWS, FLYNN, AND BLAKE PRECEDED THIS MAN TO THE PLATE | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN "SEA FEVER", ALL JOHN MASEFIELD ASKED FOR "IS A TALL SHIP AND A STAR TO..." DO THIS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | LANGSTON HUGHES
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|
||||
| BY THE TITLE, IT'S WHAT KEATS' "LA BELLE DAME" WAS "SANS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | LINCOLN
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|
||||
| show | MAYA ANGELOU
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|
||||
| show | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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|
||||
| THIS LEADER OF THE IMAGIST SCHOOL WAS THE SISTER OF THE FAMOUS ASTRONOMER WHO PREDICTED THE EXISTENCE OF PLUTO | show 🗑
|
||||
| "THE COMING OF ARTHUR" AND "GARETH AND LYNETTE" ARE PARTS OF HIS "IDYLLS OF THE KING" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | BYRON
🗑
|
||||
| show | WORDSWORTH
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|
||||
| show | W.H. AUDEN
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|
||||
| show | WHITMAN
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|
||||
| show | ROMANTIC POETS
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|
||||
| show | WORDSWORTH
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|
||||
| show | CIVIL WAR
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|
||||
| show | ee cummings
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|
||||
| show | LONGFELLOW
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|
||||
| show | WHITMAN
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|
||||
| show | SHAKESPEARE
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|
||||
| show | JOAN OF ARC
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|
||||
| ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, A POET FROM THIS COUNTRY, WON THE 1979 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | PLATH
🗑
|
||||
| AT THE CALIFORNIA COLLEGE NAMED FOR JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, NO TEAM NICKNAME COULD BE FITTER | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR OF THE POEM "DADDY" COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963, BEFORE SHE COULD WORK OUT HER PARENTAL ISSUES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | DYLAN THOMAS
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|
||||
| show | JEWEL
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|
||||
| IN 1917, AT AGE 52, THIS IRISHMAN GOT MARRIED AND PUBLISHED HIS BOOK, "THE WILD SWANS OF COOLE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| BEFORE WRITING POEMS LIKE "HIAWATHA", HE TAUGHT MODERN LANGUAGES AT BOWDOWIN COLLEGE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | MEALS
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|
||||
| IN THE SECOND EDITION OF "LEAVES OF GRASS", THIS PIECE WAS TITLED "POEM OF WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HIS POEM "ENDYMION" BEGINS WITH THE LINE, "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1958 T.S. ELIOT HELPED GAIN THE RELEASE OF THIS POET FROM A WASHINGTON MENTAL INSTITUTION | show 🗑
|
||||
| SAMUEL BUTLER RHYMED, "LOVE IS A BOY BY POETS STYLED; THEN SPARE THE ROD AND" DO THIS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SAMUEL BUTLER
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|
||||
| show | BARDS
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|
||||
| show | WEDDING
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|
||||
| show | SALMAN RUSHDIE
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|
||||
| IN 1811 THIS POET WAS EXPELLED FROM OXFORD FOR WRITING THE PAMPHLET "THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | RICHARD LOVELACE
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|
||||
| HE'S THE PATRON SAINT OF POETS AND OF WALES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | MARGARET ATWOOD
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|
||||
| show | FROST
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|
||||
| ROBERT BURNS TOLD THIS "SWEET" RIVER TO "FLOW GENTLY...AMONG THY GREEN LEAVES" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | LORD BYRON
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|
||||
| THIS 1712 POEM WAS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF A LORD CUTTING A CURL FROM ARABELLA FERMOR'S HAIR | show 🗑
|
||||
| WILLIAM BLAKE TELLS OF THIS ANIMAL "BURNING BRIGHT IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HIS CLASSIC 1946 POEM "FERN HILL" WAS INSPIRED BY A RELATIVE'S FARM IN WALES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SHIP OF FOOLS
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|
||||
| show | THE NEW COLOSSUS
🗑
|
||||
| THE LAST WORK OF 15TH-C. POET CHRISTINE DE PISAN CELEBRATES THE MILITARY VICTORIES OF THIS WOMAN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ROBERT HERRICK
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|
||||
| show | ROBERT BLY
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|
||||
| show | BAUDELAIRE
🗑
|
||||
| THIS WORLD LEADER AND AUTHOR OF THE "LITTLE RED BOOK" WAS ALSO A POET | show 🗑
|
||||
| A SUMERIAN KING GOES ON ADVENTURES WITH HIS COMPANIAN ENKIDU, AND SEARCHES FOR IMMORTALITY AFTER THE LATTER'S DEATH | show 🗑
|
||||
| A CONFLICT ARISES BETWEEN ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON IN THE FINAL WEEKS OF THE TROJAN WAR | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ODYSSEY (HOMER)
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|
||||
| show | RAMAYANA
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|
||||
| A TROJAN HERO FLEES THE BURNING OF TROY AND GOES TO ITALY, BECOMING THE ANCESTOR OF THE ROMANS | show 🗑
|
||||
| A SERIES OF UNCONNECTED TRANSFORMATION STORIES CENTRAL TO THE MYTHOLOGICAL CREATION AND HISTORY OF THE WORLD | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | EDDA
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|
||||
| show | SONG OF ROLAND
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|
||||
| show | DIVINE COMEDY
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|
||||
| show | PARADISE LOST
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|
||||
| VARIOUS AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS ARE COMPILED, CENTERING AROUND AN OJIBWE HERO AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS WIFE, MINIHAHA | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JOHN PAUL II
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|
||||
| HER NEXT BOOK AFTER "FEAR OF FLYING" WAS A POETRY COLLECTION, "LOVEROOT" | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS GROUP'S KERRY LIVGREN WROTE "DUST IN THE WIND" AFTER READING A BOOK OF NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | HERMANN HESSE
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|
||||
| show | SHROPSHIRE
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|
||||
| show | GINSBERG
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|
||||
| LAST NAME OF THE SISTERS WHOSE 1846 BOOK OF POETRY, PUBLISHED UNDER MALE PSEUDONYMS, SOLD 2 COPIES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | PHIL RIZZUTO
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|
||||
| WHILE ATTENDING SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, THIS "COLOR PURPLE" AUTHOR WROTE HER FIRST BOOK OF POETRY | show 🗑
|
||||
| AFFLICTED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, CHRISTY BROWN NOT ONLY PAINTED WITH THIS APPENDAGE, HE ALSO WROTE BOOKS & POETRY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | WHITMAN
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|
||||
| show | CHERRY TREE
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|
||||
| show | JOHN MILTON
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|
||||
| show | AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
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|
||||
| show | MARGARET ATWOOD
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|
||||
| "NORTH OF BOSTON" AND "NEW HAMPSHIRE" ARE BOOKS OF POETRY BY THIS MAN | show 🗑
|
||||
| "CLOWN'S HOUSES" IS A BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS SISTER OF OSBERT AND SACHEVERELL SITWELL | show 🗑
|
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| COLERIDGE WROTE "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" FOR A BOOK OF POETRY CO-WRITTEN WITH THIS MAN | show 🗑
|
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| show | GUNGA DIN
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|
||||
| show | IT IS BLIND
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|
||||
| show | LEWIS CARROLL
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|
||||
| CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS A 1950S HANGOUT FOR THESE ITINERANT WRITERS AND POETS | show 🗑
|
||||
| ON FEB.12, 1959, THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH, HE ADDRESSED A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS | show 🗑
|
||||
| "IDYLLS OF THE KING" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ROBERT BURNS
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|
||||
| show | WORDSWORTH
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|
||||
| WRITTEN IN 1811, HIS POEM, "FAREWELL TO MALTA", BEGINS, "ADIEU, YE JOYS OF LA VALETTE!" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE CALLED "PROMETHEUS UNBOUND" "THE BEST THING I EVER WROTE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| GEORGE THOMSON'S "SELECT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL SCOTTISH AIRS" CONTAINS MANY OF HIS SONGS | show 🗑
|
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| IN A LONGFELLOW POEM, THIS SCHOONER IS WRECKED "ON THE REEF OF NORMAN'S WOE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | KIPLING
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|
||||
| show | FLOWERS
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|
||||
| SYLVIA PLATH PUBLISHED HER NOVEL, "THE BELL JAR", UNDER THIS PSEUDONYM | show 🗑
|
||||
| HIS COLLECTION, "THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT", CONTAINED HIS FREQUENTLY REPRINTED POEM "RICHARD CORY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CHAUCER
🗑
|
||||
| THE FIRST LINE OF THIS POET'S "ENDYMION" IS "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1883 QUEEN VICTORIA GAVE THIS POET LAUREATE THE TITLE "BARON OF ALDWORTH & FRESHWATER" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | GOETHE
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|
||||
| LI PO, WHO LIVED OVER 1,000 YEARS AGO, WAS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S GREATEST POETS | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE WROTE HIS OWN EPITAPH, "CAST A COLD EYE ON LIFE, ON DEATH, HORSEMAN, PASS BY!" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE OFTEN HAD VISIONS OF ANGELS & DEAD PEOPLE; PERHAPS HE SAW A "TYGER! TYGER! BURNING BRIGHT" TOO | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | U.S. CIVIL WAR
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|
||||
| show | OGDEN NASH
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|
||||
| show | MASSACHUSETTS
🗑
|
||||
| THIS 19TH-C. POET LAUREATE WAS THE MOST FAMOUS POET BORN IN THE LAKE DISTRICT OF ENGLAND | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
🗑
|
||||
| show | LORD BYRON
🗑
|
||||
| HE WROTE, "THE MASON SINGING...THE BOATMAN...THE HATTER...SINGING WHAT BELONGS TO HIM OR HER AND TO NONE ELSE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| "I LOVE THEE FREELY, AS MEN STRIVE FOR RIGHT; I LOVE THEE PURELY, AS THEY TURN FROM PRAISE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| FIRED FROM A JOB FOR LAZINESS, HE WROTE, "I LEAN AND LOAFE AT MY EASE OBSERVING A SPEAR OF SUMMER GRASS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| ONE OF HER POEMS SAYS, "I WAS TEN WHEN THEY BURIED YOU. AT TWENTY I TRIED TO DIE AND GET BACK, BACK, BACK, TO YOU" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | EMMA LAZARUS
🗑
|
||||
| THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; 2005 EXHIBIT ON HIM HAD A SECTION TITLED, "WOUND DRESSER IN THE CIVIL WAR" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1812 HE BECAME A DISCIPLE & FRIEND OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER WILLIAM GODWIN, LATER HIS FATHER-IN-LAW | show 🗑
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| IN 1998, HE BECAME SAN FRANCISCO'S FIRST POET LAUREATE | show 🗑
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| THIS FEMALE AMERICAN POET HAS A LINE OF HALLMARK CARDS | show 🗑
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| show | KEATS & SHELLEY
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| MADE A BARON IN THE EARLY 1880S, HE WAS THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN ELEVATED TO THAT RANK FOR LITERARY WORK ALONE | show 🗑
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| show | SHAKESPEARE
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| show | SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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| show | TENNYSON
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| MASSACHUSETTS CITY NAMED FOR AN INDUSTRIALIST WHOSE FAMILY INCLUDED SEVERAL POETS AND AN ASTRONOMER | show 🗑
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| show | FREE VERSE
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| A COMPARISON THAT GIVES HUMAN QUALITIES TO AN OBJECT | show 🗑
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| A WORD THAT IMITATES A SOUND | show 🗑
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| show | NARRATIVE POEM
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| show | METAPHOR
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| show | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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| A POET'S CHOICE OF WORDS OR ARRANGEMENTS | show 🗑
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| A PAIR OF TWO RHYMING LINES WRITTEN IN THE SAME FORM | show 🗑
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| SHORT POEMS ABOUT PERSONAL FEELINGS OR EXPERIENCES | show 🗑
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| ANY SENSORY IMPRESSION A POEM PRODUCES | show 🗑
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| show | STANZA
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| METAPHOR USING "LIKE" OR "AS" TO COMPARE THINGS | show 🗑
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| show | ALLITERATION
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| show | ASSONANCE
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| JOHN DONNE: "AND ____ SHALL BE NO MORE:____, THOU SHALT DIE" | show 🗑
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| show | XANADU
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| TENNYSON: TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO ____ | show 🗑
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| show | OZYMANDIAS
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| JOHN MASEFIELD: ...TO THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY/AND ALL I ASK IS A TALL SHIP AND A ____ TO STEER HER BY | show 🗑
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| FROST: THE ____ ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP./ BUT I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP | show 🗑
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| MAYA ANGELOU: TUNE IS HEARD ON THE DISTANT HILL/FOR THE CAGED BIRD SINGS OF ____. | show 🗑
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| show | BANDERSNATCH
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| W.B. YEATS: ALL CHANGED, CHANGED UTTERLY/ A TERRIBLE ____ IS BORN | show 🗑
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| SHAKESPEARE: SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?/ THOU ART MORE LOVELY, AND MORE ____ | show 🗑
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| DYLAN THOMAS: OLD AGE SHOULD BURN AND RAVE AT CLOSE OF DAY/ ____,____ AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT | show 🗑
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| show | MADNESS
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| show | HONOUR
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| show | HOPE
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| LANGSTON HUGHES: MAYBE IT JUST SAGS/ LIKE A HEAVY LOAD/ OR DOES IT____? | show 🗑
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| show | DAPPLED
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| show | POPPIES
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| show | SIDEWALK
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| show | JERUSALEM
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| WHITMAN: DO I ____ MYSELF?/ VERY WELL THEN, I ____ MYSELF,/ (I AM LARGE, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES) | show 🗑
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| show | OSCAR WILDE
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| "IN FLANDER'S FIELDS" | show 🗑
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| show | DYLAN THOMAS
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| show | T.S. ELIOT
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| show | WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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| show | RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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| show | POE
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| "HARLEM" | show 🗑
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| "A SHROPSHIRE LAD" | show 🗑
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| show | WALLACE STEVENS
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| show | CARL SANDBURG
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| show | MATTHEW ARNOLD
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| "ENGLAND IN 1819" | show 🗑
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| "I HEAR AMERICA SINGING" | show 🗑
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| show | FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
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| "SAILING TO BYZANTIUM" | show 🗑
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| "ANNIE ALLEN" | show 🗑
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| "WE REAL COOL" | show 🗑
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| show | TUPAC SHAKUR
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| show | RITA DOVE
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| "THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH" | show 🗑
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| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" COMMISSIONED HER TO WRITE AN INAUGURAL POEM FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA | show 🗑
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| show | PHILIP LEVINE
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| show | CAROL ANN DUFFY
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