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32 Cards in this Set
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Herrick, Robert
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b. 1591, (mostly English countryside and fictional women) To the virgins To Make Too Much of Time(Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles todayTomorrow will be dying), the Vine, Upon Julia's Voice(so smooth, so sweet, so silverly is thy voice
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Frost, Robert
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1874-1963 The Road not Taken The Pasture, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening(And miles to go before I sleep.), Acquainted with Night, Fire and Ice, Home Burial(one of longest), Snowy Evening
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Dickenson, Emily
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"(each poem known by first line, no titles, 10 published while alive, 160 posthumously)Much(Much madness is divinest sense
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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(Friend of Thoreau)Suum Cuique(Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill), Nature, The Snowstorm
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Whitman, Walt
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(gay American, outbursts of thrilled emotion) Leaves of Grass(collection of 30), Sang this- Song of Myself,
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Yeats, William Butler
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(b. Dublin, Gaelic-influenced) Sailing to Bysantium, the Second Coming, When you are Old, To a child Dancing in the Wind
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Algelou, Maya
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The Rock Cries out to us Today, Million Man March, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Browning, Robert
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"My last Duchess(That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
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Plath, Sylvia
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(Suicide at 30, dark macabre pieces) Ariel, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees
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Housman, AE
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To an athlete dying young
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Caroll, Lewis
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(Charles Dodgsen), Jabberwocky, Alice in Wonderland
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Kinnel, Galway
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Blackberry eating
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Thomas, Dylan
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Do not Go Gentle into that good night
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Atwood, Margaret
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(Candian poet and novelist) Landcrab, In the Secular Night, This is a photograph of me
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St, Vincent Millay, Edna
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(1892-1950,sonnets, lively tone) Elegy before Death, Thou art lovelier than Lilacs, the Suicide, the Little Ghost,Pulitzer prize for Harp Weaver and Other Poems
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Keats, John
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(1795-1821) To Autumn(Seasons od mists and yellow fruitfulness), To Hope, Ode to a Nightingale, On Death,On looking into Chapman's Homer
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Dante
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Divine Comedy
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Eliot, TS
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Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland(compilation)
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Thoreau, Henry David
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"On Civil Disobedience(“That government is best which governs least”), On Walden Pond, I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I went to live deeply and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rest all that was not life and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.
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Shelley, Percy
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Ozymandias
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Homer
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Illiad, Odyseey, 8th century BC, Greek, epic
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Gillihan, Strickland
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Lines on Antiquity of Micrilus (Adam, Had'em)
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Marlowe, Christopher
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b. 1564 , Dr. Faustus, Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Sonnets from the Portugese, How do I love thee let me count the ways
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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1844-1889 the Wreck of Deutschland, the caged Skylark, Heaven-Heaven, Pied Beauty, God's Grandeur
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Larkin, Philip
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(deadly wit, exposed less savory sides of English life) the North Shop, The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows
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Hardy, Thomas
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(Themes-man fighting against supernatural forces) A Study of Reading Habits, Church Going Toads
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Byron, Lord
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(friend of Percy Shelley, incest, homo) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers(negative re: the Pope), The Dream, Don Juan
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Hayden, Robert
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(Detroit) The Whipping, Those Winter Sundays, Ballad of Remembrance (grand prize 1966 World Fest Negro arts
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Nemerov, Howard
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Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket
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Parker, Dorothy
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One Perfect Rose
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Pope, Alexander
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Rape of the Lock
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