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Also Known As James Vincent Appleby
Born December 8, 1943 • Kansas City • Missouri
Died July 8, 2015 (aged 71) • Springfield • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award
Notable Works “Selected Poems” • “The Lost Pilot” • “Worshipful Company of Fletchers”
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Robert Hass
American poet and translator
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Galway Kinnell
American poet
Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, writer, and translator
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American poet
C.K. Williams
American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
James Merrill
American poet

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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
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