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41 Cards in this Set
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Regarded as a poet of New England, even though he was born in San Francisco
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Robert Frost
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Named after the southern general Robert E. Lee
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Robert Frost
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Was the son of Swedish immigrants and born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois
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Carl Sandburg
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His slogan was make it new
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Ezra Pound
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born in St. Louis Missouri, to a family of New engalnd stock
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T.S. Eliot
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11 years old when his father died, and his mother took her childre east where they settled in Lawrence Massachusetts
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Robert Frost
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Attended Lawrence HS
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Robert Frost
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Was one of the valedictorians at his HS
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Robert Frost
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Other Valedictorian was Elinor White, whom he married
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Robert Frost
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Studied briefly at Darmouth College, but left after less than two months
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Robert Frost
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He spent his time assisting his mother, who was a school teacher, and then he later worked in a mill
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Robert Frost
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During the 1890's he began writing poems and sending them out for publication, but very few were accepted
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Robert Frost
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His grandfather made it possible for him to attend Havard
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Robert Frost
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wrote about Harvard, "Harvard had taken me away from the question of whether I could write or not
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Robert Frost
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When the Spanish American War broke out in 1898, he volunteered for service
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Carl Sandburg
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Regarded as a poet of New England, even though he was born in San Francisco
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Robert Frost
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Named after the southern general Robert E. Lee
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Robert Frost
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Was the son of Swedish immigrants and born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois
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Carl Sandburg
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His slogan was make it new
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Ezra Pound
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born in St. Louis Missouri, to a family of New engalnd stock
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T.S. Eliot
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11 years old when his father died, and his mother took her childre east where they settled in Lawrence Massachusetts
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Robert Frost
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Attended Lawrence HS
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Robert Frost
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Was one of the valedictorians at his HS
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Robert Frost
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Other Valedictorian was Elinor White, whom he married
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Robert Frost
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Studied briefly at Darmouth College, but left after less than two months
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Robert Frost
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He spent his time assisting his mother, who was a school teacher, and then he later worked in a mill
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Robert Frost
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During the 1890's he began writing poems and sending them out for publication, but very few were accepted
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Robert Frost
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His grandfather made it possible for him to attend Havard
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Robert Frost
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wrote about Harvard, "Harvard had taken me away from the question of whether I could write or not
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Robert Frost
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When the Spanish American War broke out in 1898, he volunteered for service
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Carl Sandburg
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An interest in politics led him to become secretary to the mayor of Milwaukee
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Carl Sandburg
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He typed the two volumes of Abraham Lincoln: The War Years in his attic
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Carl Sandburg
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Born in Reading, PA, and he attended Harvard as a special student for 3 years
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Wallace Stevens
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After college, he worked briefly as a newspaper reporter in NY, and then attended law school and began to practice law
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Wallace Stevens
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Was a pediatrician
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William Carlos Williams
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Began his poetic career with his friendship with Pound, whom he met while they both attended University of PA
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William Carlos Williams
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1909, published his first book of poems
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William Carlos Williams
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edited T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"
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Ezra Pound
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poetry is often complex and difficult to understand
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Ezra Pound
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Born in Hailey, Idaho and raised in PA
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Ezra Pound
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Was indicted for treason in 1943 and arrested the following year by the American army in Italy
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Ezra Pound
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