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14 Cards in this Set
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Phyllis Wheatly
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1st African American writer.
Slave, educated, rallied nation. TO THE WRIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH "should you my Lord while you pursued my song wonder from whence my love of freedom sprung" |
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Ann Bradstreet
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1st American writer published
TO MY DEAR LOVING HUSBAND " i prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, for all the riches of the east dost hold |
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E.E. Cummings
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No Grammar of punctuation
ANYONE WHO LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN |
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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African American dialect poems.
Hopeful: racial segregation WE WEAR THE MASQUE |
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Edgar Allen Poe
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horror
ANABELL LEE "can ever decever my sould from the beautiful Annabel Lee" THE RAVEN TO HELEN |
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Rudard Kipling
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GUNGA DIN
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Robert Burns
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Scottish
TO A MOUSE A RED, RED ROSE |
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Carlos Williams
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Pediatrician, everyday speech
THE GREAT FIGURE THE RED WHEELBARROW THIS IS JUST TO BE SAID THE WIDOWS LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME |
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Gerard M. Hopkins
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Jesuit priest
THE WINDHOVER "my heart is hiding stirred for a bird" PIED BEAUTY |
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Carl Sandburg
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FOG
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Wallace Stevens
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Salesman
EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM |
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Langston Hughes
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African American. Harlem and Jazz
DREAM DEFERRED HARLEM I TOO MOTHER TO SON |
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E.A.Robinson
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Small American towns
RICHARD COREY money isn't everything |
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Robert Frost
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AFTER APPLE PICKING
BIRCHES MENDING WALL "spring is the mischief in me THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
