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Also Known As James Arlington Wright
Born December 13, 1927 • Martins Ferry • Ohio
Died March 25, 1980 (aged 52) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1972)
Notable Works “The Branch Will Not Break”
Richard Howard
American author
Donald Justice
American poet and editor
Robert Bly
American author
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Hass
American poet and translator
Anthony Hecht
American poet
William Meredith
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, writer, and translator
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
John Ciardi
American poet and critic
Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

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