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79 Cards in this Set
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Pastoral Poet
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Robert Frost
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Named after Robert E. Lee
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Robert Frost
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Graduated valedictorian and married the co-valedictorian
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Robert Frost
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Received 4 Pulitzer Prizes
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Robert Frost
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When did Frost die? Along with who?
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1963; C.S. Lewis, Kennedy
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"The Pasture"
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Robert Frost
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"Fire and Ice"
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Robert Frost
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Robert Frost
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Robert Frost
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"Out, Out"
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Robert Frost
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"The Gift Outright"
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Frost
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Unnamed for 6 months
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Robinson
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Relative of Anne Bradstreet
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Robinson
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What was the model for Tilbury Town?
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Gardiner, Maine - Robinson
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Admired by Theodore Roosevelt
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Robinson
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Wrote about King Arthur?
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Robinson
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Prof. at Vanderbilt
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Ransom
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The New Criticism
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Ransom
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Founder of the Kenyon Review
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Ransom
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"Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
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Ransom
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"Credo"
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Robinson
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"Miniver Cheevy"
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Robinson
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Wished he was a knight?
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Miniver Cheevy
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"Cliff Klingenhagen"
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Robinson
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"Richard Corey"
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Robinson
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Rich man who commited suicide
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Richard Corey
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"Parting, Without a Sequel"
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Ransom
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"Piazza Piece"
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Ransom
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Dressed like Lord Byron?
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Millay
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Master of the Sonnet
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Millay
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"Recuerdo"
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Millay
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"Sonnet XXVI"
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Millay
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Born in England and moved to America?
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Auden
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Died and buried in Vienna, Austria?
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Auden
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Has a memorial in Westminster Abbey?
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Auden
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"Herman Melville"
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Auden
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"Villanelle"
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Auden
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Hospitalized for 12 years due to an insanity plea?
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Pound
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Accused of treason?
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Pound
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"A Pact"
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Pound
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"In a Station of the Metro"
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Pound
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Petals on a wet, black bough
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"In a Station of the Metro" - Pound
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"The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
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Pound
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Pediatrician?
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Williams
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"Paterson" - 5 Volumes
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Williams
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"The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Williams
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"Poem"
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Williams
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A cat stepping down from a flower pot
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"Poem" - Williams
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"Tract"
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Williams
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How to conduct a funeral
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"Tract" - Williams
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Played football at Yale?
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Machleish
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"Ars Poetica"
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Machleish
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Friends with the Roosevelts?
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Machleish
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"Poem in Prose"
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Machleish
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Ambulance driver in WWI?
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Cummings
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Accused of being a spy?
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Cummings
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"r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r"
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Cummings
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"l(a"
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Cummings
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"Thank you God for this most Amazing"
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Cummings
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Religious Issues
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Eliot
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Who is a Christian?
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Eliot
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Nobel Prize?
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Eliot
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British Order of Merit?
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Eliot
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Worked for Faber and Faber in London?
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Eliot
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"The Journey of the Magi"
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Eliot
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Eliot
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The busboy poet?
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Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance?
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Hughes
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Ashes buried beneath medallion in Harlem?
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Hughes
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"Dreams Deferred"
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Hughes
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"As I Grew Older"
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Hughes
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"Dreams"
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Hughes
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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Hughes
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Raised very poor - used as his poet landscape
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Sandburg
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Spanish American War?
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Sandburg
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Played basketball?
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Sandburg
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Wrote 6 volume biography of Abe Lincoln?
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Sandburg
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"Chicago"
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Sandburg
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"Fog"
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Sandburg
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