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29 Cards in this Set
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Dante |
The Divine Comedy 13th and 14 Centuries Italy |
Inferno |
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E.E. Cummings |
Tulips and Chimneys, The Enormous Room 20th Century New England |
No capitals " god america i love you land of the pilgrims" |
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Ezra Pound |
The Cantos, Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 20th Century Idaho |
Friends with TS Eliot. Supported Hitler and Mussolini Declared insane |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Paul Revere's Ride, Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline 19th C. New England |
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Ogden Nash |
Line Up for Yesterday, The Tale of Custard the Dragon, The Turtle, The Cow, Crossing the Border, The Kitten, The Camel, Limerick One 20th C. Baltimore, MD, USA |
Humorist |
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William Blake |
Tyger Tyger, Songs of Innocence & Experience, The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton, And did those feet in ancient time 18th & 19th c. London, England |
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Allen Ginsberg |
Howl, The Fall of America 20th Century NYC |
Anti-capitalist Hippie movement Idolized William Blake Son of poet |
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John Donne |
Holy Sonnets, Batter my Heart, The Baite, No Man is an Island, Death Be Not Proud, A hymn to God the Father, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 16th and 17th c. London |
Metaphysical poetry |
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John Keats |
Endymion, Ode on a Grecian Urn, On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 19th Century London & Rome |
Died from TB at 25 |
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John Milton |
Paradise Lost, On His Blindness, On His Deceased Wife, To Autumn, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 17th c. London |
Servant of Oliver Cromwell |
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Joyce Kilmer |
Martin, Trees, Main Street & Other Poems 20th c. New Jersey |
Died in the 2nd Battle of the Marne in WWI in France
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Lewis Carroll |
Jabberwocky, Hunting of the Snark 19th c. England |
Also mathemtician
Wrote Alices Adventures in WOnderland |
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Percey Shelley |
The Necessity of Atheism, The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa, Prometheus Unbound, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark 29th c. England |
Husband of Frankenstein's autho Died in Sardinia, Italyr |
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Rudyard Kipling |
Mandalay, Gunga Din, The Gods of the Copybook Headings, The White Man's Burden, If 19th and 20th c. England |
Born in British India
Also Wrote the Jungle Book, Rikki Tikki Tavi, Just So Stories, Kim, and Captains Courageous 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature |
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Langston Hughes |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Harlem, Shakespeare in Harlem 20th c. NYC |
Leader of Harlem Renaissance
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TS Eliot |
The Wasteland, Love Song of J. Alref Prufrock, Gues: The Theatre Cat!, Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral 20th c. England |
Born in US, Moved to England Nobel Prize Winner in 1948 |
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William Wordsworth |
Resolution and Independence, Poems in Two Volumes, The Haunted Tree, Lyrical Ballads, The Excursion, The Prelude, I wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Prospectus, The Recluse, To the Cuckoo 18th & 19th c.'s England |
Poet Laureate |
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Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Charge of the Light Brigade, Break Break Break, Tears Idle Tears, Crossing the Bar Idylis of the King, Ulysses, Tithonus, Locksley Hall, The Lord of Burleigh 19th. c England |
Poet Laureate of England
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Carl Sandburg |
Chicago, Chicago Poems, Rootabaga Stories, The People Yes, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years 20th c. Chicago |
3x Pulitzer winner |
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Sylvia Plath |
Lady Lazarus, Collected Poems, The Bell Jar, Daddy, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel 20th c. Boston |
Married to Ted Hughes
Posthumously awarded Pulitzer Committed suicide in London at age 30 |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, A Few Figs From Thistles, What Lips Have Kissed, The Harp Weaver, Fatal Interview 20th c. Maine |
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Robert Browning |
Belles and Pomegranates, Pippa Passes, My Last Duchess, Andrea Del Sarto 19th c. England |
Husband of EB Browning Died in Italy |
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Dylan Thomas |
Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, Fern Hill 20th c. Wales |
Died in New York City from pneumonia while on a drinking binge and in poor health
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Robert Burns |
Comin' Thro the Rye, The Banks O'Doon, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Auld Lang Syne, Highland Mary, To a Mouse, A Man's a Man for A'That, Ae Fond Kiss, Scots Wha Hae, Tam O;Shanter 18th c. Scotland |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
A Vision of Poets, Aurora Leigh, The Rhyme of the Duchess May, Sonnets from the Portuguese, The Battle of Marathon: A Poem 19th c. England |
Wife of Robert Browning Died in Italy |
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Emily Dickinson |
A Route of Evanescence, I Heard a Fly Buzz, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain 19th c. New England |
Most poems did not have titles Never left Amherst in lifetime |
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Robert Frost |
A Boy's Will, North of Boston, A Mask of Reason, On a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, Birches, Dust of Snow, Good-Bye and Keep Cold 18th & 20th Centuries Boston |
Born in San Francisco Spoke at Kennedy's inauguration |
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Lord Byron |
Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, To an Oak at a Newstead, Fugitive Pieces, Farewell to Malta 19th c. England |
Died in Greece fighting the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence |
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Walt Whitman |
Leaves of Grass, The Good Gray Poet, Beat Beat Drums, I hear America Singing,O Captain! My Captain!, Song of the Broad Axe, Containing Multitudes, Song of Myself, The Wound Dresser, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 19th c. New York/ NJ |
Volunteer nurse in American Civil War |
