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80 Cards in this Set
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What year was Emerson born?
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1803
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What year did Emerson die?
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1882
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What poet lived in Cambridge during the war of 1812
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Emerson
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Where was the main place that Emerson lived?
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Concord MA
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Who was Emerson's first wife?
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Ellen Tucker
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When was Emily Dickinson Born?
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December 30, 1830
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Where was Emily Dickinson born?
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Amherst MA
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When did Emily Dickinson die?
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1886
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How many poems did Emily Dickinson publish in her lifetime?
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7
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What year did Emily Dickinson start writing poetry?
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1850
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When was Walt Whitman born?
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May 31, 1819
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When did Walt Whitman die?
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1892
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Where was Walt Whitman born?
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West Hills of Long Island
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What was Walt Whitman's religion?
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none
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Who was an apprentice in a law firm?
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Walt Whitman
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when was Carl Sandburg Born
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Jan, 6 1878
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When did Carl Sandburg die?
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1967
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Which poet grew up in a poor family and became a hobo?
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Carl Sandburg
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What year (in school) did Carl Sandburg drop out?
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8th Grade
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Who joined the Army in the Spanish-American war?
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Carl Sandburg
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What poet did not get into West POint?
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Carl Sandburg
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When was Wallace Stevens born?
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October 2, 1879
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Where was Wallace Stevens born?
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Reading Pennsylvania
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When did Wallace Stevens die?
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August 1955
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What was the main value that Wallace Stevens' parents taught him
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Self-Sufficiency
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What highschool did Wallace Stevens go to?
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Reading boys school
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What was Wallace Stevens' day job?
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Insurance Law
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When was William Carlos Williams born?
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1883
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WHen did William Carlos williams Die?
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March 4, 1963
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What poet was an early influence of Wiliam Carlos Williams?
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Ezra Pound
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Where was WIlliam Carlos Williams born?
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Rutherford New Jersey
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Who first influenced Williams to write poetry
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His high school english teacher
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When was Randall Jarrell born?
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May 6, 1914
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When did Randall Jarrell die?
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October 14, 1965
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Where was Randall Jarrell Born?
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Nashville Tennessee
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What poet went to Vanderbilt?
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Randall Jarrell
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What was Jarrell's father's name?
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Owen Jarrell
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When was Stafford born?
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1914
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When did Stafford die
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1993
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Where was stafford Born?
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Kansas
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Who wrote "Down in my Heart"
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Stafford
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What year did Stanford move to Oregon?
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1948
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What did Stanford do during WWII?
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Entered Contientious Objector camps
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When was Theodore Roethke born?
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May 25, 1908
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When did Theodore Roethke die?
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1963
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Where was Theodore Roethke born?
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Saginaw Michigan
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Who was Theodore Roethke's grandfather?
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Wilhelm Roethke
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Whose grandfather immigrated to the UNited states from Prussia?
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Theodore Roethke
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What year did Emerson publish Nature?
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1835
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What year did Emerson's House burn down?
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1872
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Who were Dickinson's two main relationships
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Calvinsist Minister, Higginson
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Who was Dickinson's advisor on poetry?
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Higginson
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Why didn't Dickinson publish her poems
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She was advised not to by Higginson
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How many children were in Walt Whitman's family?
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9
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What was the name of the newpaper that whitman wrote for?
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Huntington
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How many editions of "leaves of grass" were there?
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5-6
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When was the last edition of leaves of grass published?
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1892
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What was the last edition of "leaves of grass" called
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The deathbed edition
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What is characteristic of Whitman's endings?
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they are abrupt
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What was different about Sandburg's wife
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She was the sister of Stichen the photographer
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For what did Sandburg win the pulitzer prize
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HIstory of LIncoln
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Why did Wallace Stevens leave Harvard?
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Couldn't afford it
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What newspaper did Wallace Stevens write for?
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New York evening post
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How many volumes of poetry did Wallace Stevens write in his lifetime?
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7
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Who wrote plays/prose to explain ideas in poetry
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Stevens
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What religion was Williams' grandfather?
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jewish
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religion of Williams' Grandmother
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Catholic
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Religion of williams' father?
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Anglican
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What was the name of Williams' wife
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flossie
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What poet influenced Williams' doctor side
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Keats
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What movement was Williams ascociated with?
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Imagist
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Where did Roethke go to school?
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University of Michigan Ann Arbor
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What was Roethke's first volume of poetry
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Open House
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What does Dolor show?
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conformity of society
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How did Roethke's poems change when he moved out West
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they got longer
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Who influenced Jarrell?
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Ranson- Teacher at Vanderbilt
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What poetry movement is Jarrell ascociated with
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Beat Movement
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When did Randell Jarrell win the Gugginheim Fellowship?
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1946
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What poems of Stafford were mounted along the Cascade River highway?
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Methow River
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Along which highway are Staffords poems posted?
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Cascade River Highway
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