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Edmund Clarence Stedman
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A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Poetry: First Lines
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Born October 8, 1833 • Hartford • Connecticut
Died January 18, 1908 (aged 74) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study English literature • poetry
Karl Shapiro
American poet
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Daniel Hoffman
American poet
Carl Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic
Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic
Leon Edel
American critic and biographer
John Malcolm Brinnin
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Reed Whittemore
American teacher and poet
A.J.M. Smith
Canadian poet and anthologist
Horace Gregory
American poet and critic

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
American Writers Quiz
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry