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157 Cards in this Set
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Four Imagists
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Pound
Williams Lowell H.D. |
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Four writers of the Harlem Renaissance
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McKay
Toomer Hughes Cullen |
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Four Confessional Poets
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Sexton
Plath Berryman Snodgrass |
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Frost
about two roads and not being able to choose both; choose the path less taken |
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"Fire and Ice"
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Frost
end of the world; fire and ice are equally destructive |
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Frost
stopping in the middle of nowhere to watch snow; horse thinks it's weird; still has a long way to travel |
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"After Apple-Picking"
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Frost
long after apple-picking is done, it absorbs the mind |
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"Mending Wall"
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Frost
about a wall between neighbors that hunters knock over and once a year the neighbors fix |
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"The Death of the Hired Man"
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Frost
Mary, Warren, Silas Silas ditched Warren and now has come back to die |
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"Chicago"
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Sandburg
gives many names to workers in Chicago; about things workers do; epithets |
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"Prayers of Steel"
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Sandburg
a prayer from steel to God about the many things it could be made into |
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"Grass"
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Sandburg
no matter what happens, grass always grows over it and makes people forget about it |
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"In a Station of the Metro"
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Pound
The apparitoin of these faces in the crowd;/Petals on a wet, black bough. image of metro train in Paris |
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"Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord"
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Pound
O fan of white silk,/ clear as frost on the grass-blade,/ You also are laid aside. |
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"The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Williams
so much depends/ upon/ a red wheel/ barrow/ glazed with rain/ water/ beside the white/ chickens. |
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"Heat"
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H.D.
nothing can survive severe heat; image of being unbelievably hot |
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"Wind and Silver"
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Lowell
Greatly shining,/ The Autumn moon floats in the thin sky,/ And the fish-ponds shake their backs and flash their/ dragon scales/ As she passes over them. |
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"The Skaters"
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Fletcher
skaters on ice making marks in the ice |
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"Anecdote of the Jar"
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Stevens
a jar on a hill in TN wild gone tame, no bird or bush |
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"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
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Stevens
lots of color mentioned; white nightgowns; tigers in red weather; about dreams |
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"The Dance"
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Williams
vivid descriptions of flabby people dancing about; based on Brughel's painting : Peasant Dance; butts, run-on lines, not dainty people |
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"Poem"
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Williams
cat, closet, flowerpot |
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"The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
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Pound
Li T'ai Po about a young woman from an arranged marriage who fell in love with her husband and misses him when he is gone |
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"Poetry"
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Moore
she doesnt like it either; descriptions of what poetry can be; interested in genuine poetry; "do not admire wht we dont understand"; poetry should be easily understood; "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" |
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Eliot
epigraph from Dante's Inferno talks about going places and women talking about Michelangelo; a nervous man not sure of how to talk to women; at a masque |
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"Janet Waking"
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Ransom
Janet wakes and goes to see her chicken, Old Chucky, and sees him die of a bee sting; exaggerated to make funny |
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"Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
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Ransom
tom boy who liked to chase geese died; they are at her funeral |
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"God's World"
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Millay
talks about how beautiful the world is |
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"On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven"
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Millay
loves the music |
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"Ars Poetica"
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MacLeish
"the art of poetry" talks about what a poem should be; original by Horace; "A poem should not mean/ But be" |
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"The End of the World"
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MacLeish
first talks about a circus then the big tent flies off and everything is dark and silent |
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"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
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Cummings
anyone and noone phrases mean passage of time life goes on |
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"pity this busy monster,manunkind"
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Cummings
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"The Tropics of New York"
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McKay
talks about fruit; sad because it was no more |
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"November Cotton Flower"
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Toomer
cotton; descriptions of random things |
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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Hughes
talks about many rivers that blacks have been around |
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"As I Grew Older"
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Hughes
talks about his life |
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"Any Human to Another"
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Cullen
talks about friends and arrows men and grief |
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"From the Dark Tower"
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Cullen
many negative words |
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"Very Like a Whale"
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Nash
alludes to many works of literature; metaphor and simile |
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"Why Boy Came to Lonely Place"
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Warren
a journey is talked about |
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"The Unknown Citizen"
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Auden
To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State nothing was known of the man; was he happy? |
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"The Pike"
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Roethke
peaceful scene then pike strikes; "A thrashing-up of the whole pool/ The pike strikes" |
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"Elegy for Jane"
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Roethke
My Student, Thrown by a Horse description of girl; thrown from horse |
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"Auto Wreck"
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Shapiro
describes how awful auto wrecks are |
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"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
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Jarrell
hunched in a small place; killed; remains are washed out bc they are so destroyed; most famous WWII poem; bomber jacket |
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"In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father"
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Brooks
July 20, 1883-November 21, 1959 talks about father's love; shes missing him, but knows that hes not suffering anymore |
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"The Explorer"
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Brooks
frayed hope; tatters; nervous affairs; griefs; choices; a literal one but the human mind is represented |
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Three Fugitive Poets
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Ransom
Warren Tate |
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"The Fog"
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Sandburg
The fog comes/one little cat feet./ It sits looking/ over harbor and city/ On silent haunches/ and then moves on. |
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lived in Chicago, Ill.
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Sandburg
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associated with Chicago School
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Sandburg
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son of Swedish immigrant
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Sandburg
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born in Galesburg, Ill.
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Sandburg
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studied and lectured on Whitman
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Sandburg
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wrote about common people confidently
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Sandburg
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The People, Yes
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Sandburg
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biographer of Lincoln
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Sandburg
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Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
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Sandburg
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won Pulitzer for biographies on Lincoln
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Sandburg
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traveling folk song singer
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Sandburg
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Chicago Poems
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Sandburg
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wrote for Chicago's Daily News
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Sandburg
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The American Songbag
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Sandburg
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Always the Young Strangers
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Sandburg
autobiography |
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four chief principles: focus on image, use of the language of common speech and always the precise word, creation of new rhythms, and complete freedom and choice of subject; first innovative
movement; came from haikus |
Imagism
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born in Reading, PA
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Stevens
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wrote poetry as an undergraduate
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Stevens
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newspaper reporter in NY
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Stevens
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joined Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, became VP
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Stevens
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Harmonium
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Stevens
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Collected Poems
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Stevens
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The Comedian as the Letter C
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Stevens
about an imaginary poet |
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"Le Monode de Mon Ode"
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Stevens
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"Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks"
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Stevens
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"The Emperor of Ice Cream"
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Stevens
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born in Rutherford, NJ
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Williams
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pediatrician
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Williams
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Paterson
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Williams
about Paterson, NJ- a manufacturing town |
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Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
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Williams
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founder of Imagism
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Pound
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born in Hailey, Idaho
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Pound
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editor of Eliot's The Waste Land
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Pound
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Hugh Selwyn Muaberley
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Pound
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The Cantos
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Pound
more than 800 pages; mix of history, political and economical theory, art, philosophy, personal confession, and allusions to foreign language and literature |
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career ended because of favorability of Mussolini on the radio
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Pound
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indicted for treason and arrested
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Pound
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confined without trial in St. Elizabeth's Hospital but released bc of literary community
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Pound
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lived in Italy
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Pound
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librarian in NYC
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Moore
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lived in Brooklyn, NY
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Moore
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spent time at Bronx Zoo
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Moore
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liked Baseball, esp the Dodgers
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Moore
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editor of the Dial
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Moore
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Collected Poems
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Moore
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most prominent poet of 20th century
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Eliot
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gave up US citizenship to become British
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Eliot
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went to Harvard
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Eliot
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Prufrock and Other Observations
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Eliot
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published in The Harvard Advocate
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Eliot
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The Waste Land
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Eliot
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Ash Wednesday
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Eliot
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Four Quartets
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Eliot
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Murder in the Cathedral
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Eliot
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The Cocktail Party
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Eliot
dramatist |
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won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948
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Eliot
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"Renascence"
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Millay
wrote at 19 an awakening to life |
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won Pulitzer Prize for The Harp-Weaver
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Millay
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went to Yale for 2 years, but graduated from Harvard
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MacLeish
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won Pulitzer Prize for Conquistador
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MacLeish
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was an adviser to FDR
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MacLeish
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J.B.
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MacLeish
modern version of Job, play |
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Herakles
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MacLeish
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Three things different about Cummings' poetry
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punctuation
capitilization syntax- use and putting together of words |
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was a painter
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Cummings
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E. E. Cummings, E.E. stands for..
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Edward Estlin
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born in Cambridge, MA
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Cummings
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father was a Harvard professor
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Cummings
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volunteered for Amulance Corps. in France
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Cummings
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unjustly imprisoned for treason in French concentration camp
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Cummings
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The Enormous Room
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Cummings
prose about being in French concentration camp |
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started the Harlem Renaissance
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Johnson
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Johnson
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born in Jamaica
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McKay
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oldest writer of the Harlem Renaissance
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McKay
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Cane
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Toomer
unusual novel |
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leading writer in the Harlem Renaissance
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Hughes
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had odd jobs such as working in a DC hotel
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Hughes
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The Weary Blues
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Hughes
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known for a series of sketches about Jess B. Semple
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Hughes
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most influential writer
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Hughes
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Opportunity
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Cullen
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known for light, humorous verse
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Nash
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first poet laureate of US
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Warren
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poet laureate
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a poet whose job is to write about whatever is going on
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current poet laureate
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Kooser
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won Pulitzers for All the Kings Men, Promises, and Now and Then
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Warren
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All the King's Men
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Warren
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Promises
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Warren
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Now and Then
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Warren
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had red hair
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Warren
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born in Gutherie KY
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Warren
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went to Vanderbilt U
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Warren
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born in England and lived their for 32 years
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Auden
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W.H. Auden, W. H. stands for...
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Wystan Hugh
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became an American citizen in 1946
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Auden
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won Pulitzer for The Age of Anxiety
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Auden
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The Diner (artwork)
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Segal
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varsity tennis coach
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Roethke
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Open House
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Roethke
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won Pulitzer for The Waking
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Roethke
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born in Nashville, TN
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Jarrell
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first African American to win Pulitzer
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Brooks
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won Pulitzer for Annie Allen
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Brooks
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A Street in Bronzeville
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Brooks
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sets most stories in Bronzeville
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Brooks
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Maud Martha
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Brooks
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