Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library) poetry readings, 1931- (ongoing).
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Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014
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Poet and professor. From the description of Papers, 1936-1980. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56815853 American poet. From the description of Introduction to Seamus Heaney's reading to the Academy of American Poets at the Morgan Library : typescript with autograph revisions, [1984]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874953 From the description of The fundamental project of technology : typescript photocopy with autograph revisions, [n.d.]. (Un...
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Clampitt, Amy, 1920-1994
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Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editor. Not until the mid...
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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...
Wieners, John, 1934-2002
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Poet John Wieners was born in Boston on January 6, 1934. After graduating from Boston College in 1954, Wieners attended Black Mountain College from 1955-1956, studying under Charles Olson and Robert Duncan. He became associated with the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, and his two one-act plays were produced by the New York Poet's Theatre and Judson Poets Theatre in New York. In 1957 he founded the poetry magazine, Measure, and in 1962 received the Poet's Foundation Award. Among his pub...
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962
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Poet. Married Una Call Kuster in 1913. From the description of Papers of Robinson Jeffers, 1924-1941 (bulk 1924-1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130961 Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was an American poet and dramatist. Born in Pittsburgh in 1887, he graduated from Occidental College in 1905. He married Una Call Jeffers (1884-1950) in 1913, and they had three children. His inspiration came from his wife, their home that he built in 1919, Tor House, and the rugged Big Sur...
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
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Epithet: Canadian author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x0001bb Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood was born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa. She earned a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto, and an M.A. from Harvard. She is a novelist, poet, literary critic and a pioneer of Canadian women's writing. While primarily known for her novels and short fiction, she is the author of over fifteen books o...
Hollander, John, 1929-2013
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John Hollander was born in New York City on October 28, 1929. He attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Picture Window (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), Figurehead: And Other Poems (1999), Tesserae (1993), Selected Poetry (1993), Harp Lake (1988), Powers of Thirteen (1983), Spectral Emanations (1978), Types of Shape (1969), and A Cracklin...
Bronk, William
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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American poet; born in 1918 in Fort Edward, N.Y. and was the author of more than 15 books of poems and essays and a winner of the American Book Award in 1982. William Bronk died on 22 Feb 1999. From the guide to the William Bronk Papers, 1908-1999., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Poet and 1982 winner of the American Book Award. From the description of William Bronk papers, 1939-1995 1961-1986. (Manchester City Library)....
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Paul, Robert A.
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Ewart, Gavin
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Robert Creeley.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63s4khz (person)
The Corliss Lamont Fund for the Poetry Room.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sw0w7t (corporateBody)
Nagy, Gregory
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zq84k2 (person)
Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs8bjm (person)
Houghton, Firman.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w51qq3 (person)
Cole, Henri
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n3v7x (person)
Black, Sophie Cabot
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6990sp6 (person)
John Allcorn.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cq1db9 (person)
Sadoff, Ira
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k76zt4 (person)
Snodgrass, W.D.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp907s (person)
Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gx5920 (person)
Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x0001f1 ...
Emil Goldberg
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jv46ds (person)
Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gm8nc6 (person)
Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x0003a1 Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), poet, professor and critic, born in New York, New York. From the description of Anthony Hecht papers, 1894-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 213097553 ...
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard, 1821-1873
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr24mq (person)
Tuckerman was a poet of Greenfield, Mass. From the description of Compositions, 1830-1872. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80523677 From the description of Correspondence, 1833-1873. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122402854 From the guide to the Compositions, 1830-1872., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Frederick Goddard Tuckerman correspondence, 1833-1873., (Houghton Library, Harvard...
Cooper, Jane, 1940-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63z2zth (person)
Academy of American Poets
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The Academy of American poets was founded in 1934 by Mrs. Hugh Bullock to encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of American poetry by providing fellowships for poets, sponsoring national book awards for poets of all accomplishments, offering prizes in American universities and numerous other public programs, and bringing poetry into the daily lives of Americans. The Academy's series of readings, lectures, and dialogues, offered annually since 1963, has achieved a national reputation. ...
Lerner, Laurence
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq3wpp (person)
Woodberry Poetry Room & Greek Studies.
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Howe, Marie, 1950-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6128csq (person)
Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6709xxp (person)
Simic, Charles
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s01nkt (person)
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65d8rrh (person)
The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...
Very, Jones
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb9m03 (person)
Sir Walter Raleigh
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rs684z (person)
Woolson, Constance Fenimore
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f903qm (person)
Margaret Jane Raden
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k20vx7 (person)
W. H. Auden
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hr7sjd (person)
Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx1gv5 (person)
American poet and critic. From the description of Correspondence, works, and clippings, 1910-1952, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453062 John Gould Fletcher, born in Little Rock, Arkansas and educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard (1903-1907), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author. Fletcher lived in England for years before returning home to Arkansas where, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was act...
Hilary Morrish.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rh0fjc (person)
Margor Moraes Accioly
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j80wjg (person)
Reynolds, Tim
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p39gr4 (person)
Talvet, J.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60q4xq5 (person)
Marianne Moore
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fp4qhp (person)
Robert Lowell
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z17wt1 (person)
David Rigsby
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qq0r2k (person)
Archibald MacLeish Poetry Reading
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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh3m3w (person)
Educator, poet. From the description of Correspondence, with University of Michigan officials, 1962. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34370061 Theodore Roethke won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his volume of verse "The Waking." He was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1908 and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1929. He taught at Lafayette University, Penn State, Bennington College and finally at the University of Washington. His books include "...
Powell, D. A. (Douglas A.)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60313w4 (person)
D.A. Powell, poet, born in Albany, Georgia on May 15, 1963. Powell received his bachelors degree from Sonoma State University in 1991 and his masters from the same in 1993. He received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1996. Powell has published several volumes of poetry, including Tea (1998), Lunch (2000), and Chronic (2010), for which he won the Kinsley Tufts Poetry Award. From the description of D.A. Powell papers (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 758684778 ...
Zaturenska, Marya
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k19xzk (person)
Verlyn Klinkenborg.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65579k3 (person)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs8q4s (person)
MacDonagh, Donagh, 1912-1968
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp07z8 (person)
Wakoski, Diane.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj47wf (person)
Poet. From the description of Letters, 1984-1996. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 47287823 American poet. From the description of Papers, 1959-[ongoing] (bulk 1959-1978) (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28318855 Diane Wakoski (b. 1937), American poet and teacher. From the description of Diane Wakoski poems, 1971-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702199357 From the description of Diane Wakoski letters to John ...
Frederick Packard.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62k9sp6 (person)
Eleanor Stout.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr6gkv (person)
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n80n7 (person)
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...
Emanuel, Lynn, 1949-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p57r49 (person)
Jim Randall.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d650xm (person)
Sleigh, Tom
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6px0xjp (person)
Paul Valery
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m6xrb (person)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60863v9 (person)
Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...
Santayana, George, 1863-1952
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vh5svc (person)
Poet, philosopher, and educator. From the description of George Santayana correspondence and poem, 1937-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981741 Santayana (A.B. 1886) taught philosophy at Harvard 1886-1912. From the description of The realm of matter : manuscript, [ca. 1930] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612860176 From the description of The judgment of Paris : or how the first-ten man chooses a club : manuscript, 1892 Oct. 28. (Harvard ...
Forché, Carolyn.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6625mn7 (person)
Raul Armando Calessa
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6556134 (person)
Helen Joyce.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj7f44 (person)
Peter Sacks.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64z8zt3 (person)
Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tt4t6p (person)
Writer, associate of Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Papers, 1954-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482491 American poet, born July 8, 1933, in New York City. From the description of Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590485 Peter Orlovsky, poet, musician, farmer, teacher, and companion of po...
Tudor Parfit
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds742p (person)
Grollmes, Eugene E.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z6j2t (person)
May Swenson
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h51vt (person)
Kenner, Hugh
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xq9gb4 (person)
Bernstein, Charles
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk9sp3 (person)
Bonnefoy, Yves
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65265f7 (person)
O'Connor, Edwin.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs97t7 (person)
Kay Boyle.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62373mf (person)
Phi beta kappa
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Collegiate scholastic honor society founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. From the description of Phi Beta Kappa records, 1776-2006 (bulk 1900-2000). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983375 The national Phi Beta Kappa Society, America's oldest and most prestigious honor society, was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Membership in the national society is a significant achievement, which honors excellen...
Frank Bidart
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t57sp4 (person)
Emerson College and Woodberry Poetry Room.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c95ksk (corporateBody)
Francisco Segovia
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hz5dx3 (person)
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z17qs (person)
American collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Fenway Court," to an unidentified recipient, [1908?] Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568468 Art collector and patron; Mrs. Jack Gardner. From the description of Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection, [18--]-[19--]. (University of Mobile Library). WorldCat record id: 70925322 Art historian, critic, collector, and teacher; Flo...
Simon, John B.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vz07fz (person)
Epithet: KCB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000111 Epithet: Prebendary of Kirton, diocese Exon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00035e Epithet: KCB; President of the Royal College of Surgeons British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x...
Christina Davis.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62367rh (person)
William Shakespeare
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hk0gsf (person)
Spark, Debra, 1962-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zj0p3n (person)
Jacobsen, Josephine
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b40r1v (person)
Francis, Robert A.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xr1hdr (person)
Frieda Lawrence.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kn2z8k (person)
Tranströmer, Tomas.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n72pc3 (person)
Michael Harper
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q95srq (person)
Seferis, George, 1900-1971
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq42p1 (person)
Epithet: pseudonym of Georgios Seferiádēs, poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x00028b Seferis was a Greek diplomat and poet. From the description of Compositions and correspondence, 1954-1971. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505834 From the guide to the George Seferis compositions and correspondence, 1954-1971., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Univ...
Peter Huchel
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nx39fq (person)
Professor William Alfred.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69q6zb6 (person)
Robson, Ernest M.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63x8nwm (person)
Ernest M. Robson, born 1902, died 1988, Chester Pennsylvania. Poet and founder of Primary Press with his wife, Marion Robson. From the description of Ernest M. Robson Literary manuscripts, circa 1959-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122593614 Manuscripts, etc. for six volumes of poetry written or compiled by Ernest M. Robson, several in collaboration with others, including his wife Marion, who either designed or did the calligraphy for all the b...
Donald Block
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60721pc (person)
Pales-Matos, Luis.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65g2h96 (person)
Sue Standing
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m46zpm (person)
Barresi, Dorothy
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d34xzt (person)
Michael Milburn
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c10dw6 (person)
Walcott, Derek
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cm14h6 (person)
Victor Luiz Gonalez
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67z0jwx (person)
Chloe Aridjis
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64p3rp5 (person)
Bartelo Cafazzi
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66v52kn (person)
Hammond, Mason, 1903-2002
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm2gqz (person)
Hammond earned his Harvard AB in 1925. From the description of Notes in History 23, 1922-1923. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075504 From the description of Final honors examination in Latin 7, May 7, 1925. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075614 Hammond graduated from Harvard in 1925 and taught Latin at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Mason Hammond, 1922-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973...
Howells, William Dean, II
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c84r69 (person)
Frani Muser
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gs18zb (person)
E. A. Poe
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69b1tpb (person)
W. D. Snodgrass
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6207p28 (person)
Bell, Marvin, 1937-....
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d22bp3 (person)
Loewinsohn, Ron
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pp0038 (person)
American poet and novelist. From the description of For Miles Davis : typescript, [196-] / Ron Loewinsohn. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423121 From the description of Essay, fathers & sons : typescript, [ca. 1960]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32334315 From the description of Trees/8 : typescript, 1959 July. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32334322 From the descript...
Kleinzahler, August
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60h5vnr (person)
Coolidge, Clark, 1939-....
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq4j0v (person)
Coolidge was born Feb. 26, 1939 in Providence, RI; attended Brown Univ., 1956-58; drummer with Serpent Power, a San Francisco rock group; producer of Words (weekly hour of new poetry) at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, CA, 1969-70; author of various books of poetry, including Flag flutter and U.S. Electric (1966), Clark Coolidge (1967), Space (1970), The so (1971), Suite V. (1973), The maintains (1974), and Polaroid (1975); co-editor of Joglars, 1964-66. From the description of Correspondence, ...
Valentine, Jean
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tk1066 (person)
Alice Methfessel
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gg5fdn (person)
Gregory Nagy
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h53dt (person)
Michael Blumenthal.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nb0wrs (person)
Graduate Division of Radcliffe College.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz1m99 (corporateBody)
Morris Gray, Poetry Room.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cm1j81 (corporateBody)
Stephen Crane
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zb3jtg (person)
William Blake
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc2gpj (person)
Primo Levy
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf828t (person)
Bramhall, Mark
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f3378h (person)
Stuart, Dabney
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61x01kg (person)
Thomas Parkinson.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67z0tz4 (person)
Goodone, Richard
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b98mz2 (person)
Wallace, Stevens
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mq8khf (person)
Amiel Al Khali
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tr9vtc (person)
John Alcorn
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zx5gw5 (person)
Barth, John
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cd37vm (person)
Alexander Pope
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hz61b9 (person)
Larkin, Philip
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j11tnz (person)
English author Philip Larkin was born in Coventry and educated at Oxford. Within a few years of graduation, he had published two novels and a volume of poetry. His verse was technically accomplished and quite readable; despite a remarkably small output, he became one of the most highly-regarded poets of the 20th century. He was equally popular with critics and his loyal public, successfully producing accessible verse with a uniquely English voice that remained true to classical tradition. Shy an...
Wake (Seymour Lawrence?).
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h84dvx (person)
Greenie Kitchen
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kj52nv (person)
Michael Palmer.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6973pw3 (person)
Bill Knott
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jf90mr (person)
Robert Swennas
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nh8pbp (person)
Alice Goodman
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zq7t44 (person)
O'NEILL, SEAMUS
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs9wmd (person)
Valaōritēs, Nanos
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rh07tg (person)
Philip Freneau
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d07ghq (person)
Ryan, Michael, 1972-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w633085b (person)
Epithet: Surgeon, 56th Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000347.0x000030 ...
Harris, Marie
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68n056m (person)
Frank O'Hara
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63d0cr9 (person)
William Dunbar
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6430jpp (person)
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n80n7 (person)
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...
Andrea Dzendzato
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66z2wrq (person)
Lamport, Felicia, 1916-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m6577d (person)
Writer, teacher, and political satirist Felicia Lamport graduated from Vassar College in 1937 and worked as a reporter for the New York Evening Journal. She was the author of Scrap Irony (1961), Cultural Slag (1966), and Light Metres (1982), among others, and her book reviews, articles, and verse appeared in many magazines including the Atlantic, Harper's, and the New Yorker. Her satiric verse was featured regularly in the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, the Louisville Courier-Journal, and the ...
Richard Edelman
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ph619x (person)
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69z94bt (person)
Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet who first achieved recognition with "Eighteen Poems" (1934). He wrote both prose and radio plays, including "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" (1940), "Deaths and Entrances" (1946), "Under Milkwood" (1954), and "Adventures in the Skin Trade" (1955). From the description of Dylan Thomas collection. [1935-1953]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660196437 Welsh author Dylan Thomas occupies a controversial place among 20t...
Sotiropoulou, Ersie.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q66gqw (person)
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xs623k (person)
Wyndham Lewis was an artist, novelist, and critic, who was born in Canada but lived for many years in England. He was a leader of the Vorticist movement. From the guide to the Wyndham Lewis collection, 1877-1975, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) English author and painter. From the description of Letters, 1921-1934. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233126882 Author and artist Wyndham Lewis was b...
Hadas, Rachel
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc6ws3 (person)
McKinsey, Martin
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6961kfx (person)
Wilbur, Richard
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63w1vxj (person)
Richard Wilbur (1921- ) is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Things of This World (1956) in 1957 (for which he also won the National Book Award) and for New and Collected Poems (1988) in 1989. Among Wilbur's other honors are the 1983 Drama Desk Special Award for his translation of The Misanthrope, the Edna St Vincent Millay Award, t...
Smith, Michael, 1943-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63g79cw (person)
Susan Smith
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x4944f (person)
McIntire, Douglas
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z60mc (person)
Henri Cole
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dh0qr8 (person)
Gerald Fitzgerald.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vj9mx2 (person)
Auden, W. H.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66f81pk (person)
Oberg, Arthur.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63910bq (person)
Stalinslaw Barańczak.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6px0279 (person)
Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6445ksp (person)
Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...
Dobyns, Stephen
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r74dn (person)
Knott, Bill
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pm4z61 (person)
Scott, Peter Dale
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g58kfs (person)
Robert Bly
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66n742f (person)
Shaw, Robert
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Epithet: Merchant at Marseilles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000d0 Epithet: of Ballinodoe, near Sligo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000d1 Epithet: Colonel; MP; lst Baronet 1821 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000cf ...
Yang, Lien-sheng
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Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
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American poet and educator. From the description of Letter to Mrs. F.E. Lund [manuscript], 1968 February 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833566 John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910-1913, and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1914, where he taught English until 1937. While at Vanderbil...
Harvard Review.
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Snyder, Gary
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Biography Biographical Narrative Masa Uehara, daughter of Tokusei and Mitsu, was raised in Japan. She and Gary Snyder were introduced in 1966 at a dinner party hosted by Hisao Kanaseki, one of her university professors and a friend of Snyder's. At the time of their introduction Uehara had recently graduated from Kobe University and was planning to pursue graduate studies at Ochanomizu Women's Universit...
Elizabeth Bishop
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Engle, Paul, 1959-
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Po, Li
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Ahkmatova, Anna
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Catherine Barnett
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Marie Howe
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Belitt, Ben
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C. M. Bowra.
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Macdonogh, Patrick
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Irish poet Patrick MacDonogh [MacDonagh] (1902–1961) produced his literary works over a thirty year period during the twentieth century. Hogan, Robert, editor. Dictionary of Irish Literature . (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1979), 395. Irish poet and editor Seumas O'Sullivan (1879–1958) was born James Sullivan Starkey (1879–1958). He established and edited the Dublin Magazine, which published many works during the Irish Literary Renaissance. ...
British Council and Poetry Room.
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Daniel, David
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Soci Imaginaire and the Corliss Lamont Fund for the Poetry Room.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, IV
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Morey, Arthur
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William Corbett.
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Tillinghast, Richard.
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Festival of Life.
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Gail Mazur
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Levin, Harry, 1910-1965
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Zulueta da Costa, Ralph.
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Barry Levin
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Delargy, James H.
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Standing, Sue
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Grossman, Allen R., 1932-....
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Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
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Juaros, Roberto
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William Dickey
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Karr, Mary
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Theodore Morrison.
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Engel, Monroe
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Baxter, Charles
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Bill Wadsworth.
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Chapin, Katherine Garisson.
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McCorkle, Jill, 1958-....
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Jill McCorkle writes novels and short stories. A native of Lumberton, N.C., she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1980 with a degree in creative writing. She received an M.A. in creative writing from Hollins College in 1981. Her first two novels, The Cheerleader and July 7th, were published simultaneously by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1984. Other published works of fiction include her novels Tending to Virginia (1987), Ferris Beach (1990), and Carolin...
Orr, Gregory
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Emily Dickinson
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MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963
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Louis MacNeice (1907-63) was a poet and dramatist. From the guide to the Letters and photographs of Louis MacNeice, 1911-40, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1907, his family later moved to Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He attended Merton College, Oxford University, 1926-1930, where he met his lifelong friend W.H. Auden. In the 1930s, MacNeice was associated with English poets, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lew...
John Finley
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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647940411 Harte served as editor of the Overland Monthly, 1868-1870. From the description of ALS, 1869 April 17 : San Francisco, to Mrs. Emily Gould, Rome. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16700642 From the description of ALS, 1868 July 5 : San Francisco, to [Emily Gould]. (Copley Press, J S Copl...
Winters, Annie.
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Barker, George
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Epithet: at Pera British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000234 Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000742.0x00031d Epithet: solicitor of Birmingham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00008d Epithet: of Birmingham ...
Stephen Mitchell
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Rizza, Peggy.
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Woodworth, Samuel
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Lynn Emanuel
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Stephen Goldman
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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
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John Clare's
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Harvard.
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Maria White Lowell
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Reed, Ishmael, 1938-....
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Writer Ishmael Reed was born on February 22, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Thelma Virginia Coleman, a homemaker and salesclerk, and Henry Lenoir, a fundraiser for the YMCA. In 1942, he moved to Buffalo, New York with his mother and stepfather, Bennie Stephen Reed, an autoworker. Reed graduated from East High School in 1956, enrolled in night classes at Millard Fillmore College, and later transferred to SUNY Buffalo.In 1961, Reed began writing forEmpire State Weekly, during which time he inte...
Mailer, Norman
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Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1923 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. After graduation from Boys High School, he later graduated from Harvard University. Mailer served two years in Leyte, Luzon and Japan during World War II. In 1948, he produced his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, considered by many critics to be one of the most important novels to emerge from the second world war. Mailer's second novel, Barbary Shore, was described by its author as a "product of inten...
Pablo Neruda
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Peter Davidson.
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Bill Wood
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Elmslie, Kenward
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An American poet, writer and lyricist associated with the New York School, Kenward Elmslie was born in New York City in 1929. The grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, Elmslie graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a B.A. in literature and began his writing career as a lyricist and librettist for theatre and musicals, including The Sweet Bye and Bye (1966) and The Glass Harp (1972). He published stories, short plays and poetry in small magazines and collections; collaborated with graphic a...
Dostoevsky
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Lewis, Carroll
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Stratus Haviaras.
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Rector, Liam, 1949-2007
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Pulsifier, Harold Trowbridge.
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W. J. Bate
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Monro, Alida Klemantaski
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Alida Klemantaski married British poet Harold Monro and worked with him in the Poetry Bookshop. From the description of Correspondence of Alida Klemantaski Monro, 1933. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31253970 ...
Vazirani, Reetika, 1962-2003
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Reetika Gina Vazirani was born August 9, 1962 in Patiala, India. In 1967, her family moved to the United States and settled in Silver Spring, Maryland. After high school, Vazirani earned her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1984. She studied creative writing at Boston University from 1987 to 1988, and graduated with a master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Virginia in 1997. Vazirani published a number of essays and poems in anthologies, literary...
Poggioli, Renato
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Sven Birkerts.
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Prof. Renato Poggioli.
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Haffrey, Leigh
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Devlin, Denis
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Anagnostopoulos, Athan.
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
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J. M. Coetzee (b. February 9, 1940, Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He relocated to Australia in 2002 and lives in Adelaide....
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
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Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut. From the guide to the Wallace Stevens collection, 1921-1966, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Wallace Stevens was an American essayist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Wallace Stevens collection of papers, 19...
Woodberry Poetry Room of HCL, Dept. of English and American Language and Literature, Academy of Am.
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Charles de Leon
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Rosanna Warren
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Martha Collins
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Department of English and American Language and Literature?
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Forrest Gander
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Swensen, Cole, 1955-....
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Glück, Louise.
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Carver, Raymond
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Biography Raymond Clevie Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon on May 25, 1938. In 1941 his family moved to Yakima, where Carver grew up, graduating from Yakima High School in 1956. On June 7, 1957, he married 16 year old Maryann Burk, who had just graduated from high school. In December of 1957 their first child, daughter Christine LaRae, was born. A son, Vance Lindsay, was born in October of the following year. For the next doze...
Komunyakaa, Yusef
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Kees, Weldon, 1914-1955?
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Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice NE in 1914. He attended Doane College in Crete, NE and the University of Missouri. Known mainly as a poet, Kees also published short stories and wrote for Time magazine and Paramount's newsreel service. In the 1940's he took up painting and was involved in the establishment of the Abstract Expressionist movement. In 1950 he moved to San Francisco and began collaborating on songs with Robert Helms. He disappeared in July, 1954. From the description of ...
Francis Ponge
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Smith, Bruce
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Rev. N. Helvers
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Professor Graham Huggins.
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Pierpont, John, 1785-1866,
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Unitarian clergyman, poet, and reformer. From the description of Papers of John Pierpont [manuscript], 1825-1885. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647953935 American poet. From the description of Passing away -- a dream : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1837 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 560671584 John Pierpont was born in Connecticut in 1785; he graduated from Yale in 1804 and tried several professions before beco...
Thomas, Hardy
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Harry Levin
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Jonas, Stephen
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Gerald Sullivan
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Vladimir Nabokov.
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...
Associated Writing Programs Conference.
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Carmi, T.
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Durrell, Lawrence
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Biography Lawrence George Durrell was born Feb. 27, 1912 in Julundur, India; the son of British parents, he grew up in India and spent his young adult years in England; he held many odd jobs such as jazz pianist, automobile racer, real estate agent, instructor, and press attaché; moved to France and became a full time writer in 1957; of his various publications, Durrell is best known for the Alexandria quartet, a tetralogy with titles, Justin...
Poetry Room Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824
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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...
Browne, Elliott Martin, b. 1900
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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), novelist and playwright. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82555916 From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165470 Thornton Wilder was an American playwright, novelist, and essayist. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection of papers, 1926-1975 bulk (1926-1967). (New York Public Library). WorldCat rec...
Danuta Michalowska.
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Haviaras, Stratis, 1935-....
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Mark Doty
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Paul Gunn Allen
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Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980
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Jones was a Professor of English at Harvard, having joined the department in 1936; he retired in 1962 as Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities. He was known as the "historian of American culture." From the description of Correspondence with Robert E. L. Strider, 1949-1980 (inclusive), 1962-1979 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064254 Writer and educator at Harvard University. From the description of Howard Mumford Jones Papers, 1915...
Cooke, Rose Terry
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Franci Quandreses Cuvar
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Professor Levin.
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Phillips, Carl, 1959-
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Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x000294 ...
Whitney, Hugh
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Fontanella, Luigi, 1943-....
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Ben, Jonson
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Hughes, Frieda
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Gregor, Arthur, 1923-
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Arthur Gregor, playwright. From the description of Continued departure: photocopy, 1951. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164216 From the description of The door is open: typescript, ca.1969. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378615 ...
Antonio Machado
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
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Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian and American novelist, poet, short-story writer, lecturer, and literary critic. From the description of Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975) [microform]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 210012737 From the description of Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465556 From the guide to the Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987, 1934-1975, (The New Y...
Robert Kiely.
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Andrew Wylie.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...
Under the auspices of Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund for Radcliffe College.
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Kessler, Milton
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Poet, editor, and educator. From the description of Papers of Milton Kessler. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132854 ...
Dennis, Rodney Gove
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Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
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Padraic Colum was a noted playwright, essayist, novelist, poet, and author of books for children. Born on December 8, 1881, in Longford, Ireland, Colum came to the United States in 1914 and died on January 12, 1972, in Enfield, Connecticut. Though Colum worked briefly for a railroad, he became a full-time writer in Dublin, Ireland, in 1901. He was a founder of the Irish National Theatre (later known as the Abbey Theatre), and co-founder and editor for a time of the Irish Review. From...
Randall Jarrell
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Julie Agoos.
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Harvard Vocarium.
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Morrison, Julia.
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Anna Ahkmatova
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Whitman, Albery Allson, 1851-1901
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Moore, Marianne
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From the guide to the Marianne Moore papers, 1929-1973, 1973, (Literature and Rare Books) ...
Abrams, M. H.
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Dugan, Alan.
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Alan Dugan (1923-2003), award-winning poet and educator, was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his childhood in Queens. Dugan was drafted into the Air Force during World War II and served as a mechanic for B-52s in the Pacific theater. After the war, Dugan enrolled in Olivet College in Manhattan where he met his future wife, artist Judith Shahn. Eventually, Dugan and Shahn dropped out of Olivet in protest of the firing of a professor and moved to Mexico City. Dugan graduated from Mexi...
Bill Corbett
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Mason Hammond
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Lattimore, Richmond, 1906-1984
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Aaron, Jonathan.
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John Clive.
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Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967
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British stage, screen, and radio actor; b. in Johannesburg, South Africa. From the description of Basil Rathbone collection, 1924-1950. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925636 Actor. From the description of Reminiscences of Basil Rathbone : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512788 Huxley was an English novelist and Rathbone an English actor. Rathbone played a character in The giaconda smil...
Hine, Daryl
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Walter Kaiser.
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John Hollander.
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William Alfred
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Hochman, Sandra
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Hochman was born Sept. 11, 1936, in New York City to Sidney and Mae (Barnett) Hochman. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1957 from Bennington College, which was followed by studies at the Sorbonne. Twice married and divorced, Hochman has one daughter, Ariel Leve. A prolific writer, she has earned distinction in several genres including poetry, novels and the screen play for the film, Year of the Woman (1973). In 1963, she was awarded the Yale Younger Poets award for Manhattan Pastures. ...
Fallon, Peter
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Debeljak, Ales.
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Under the auspices of the Corliss Lamont Fund for the Poetry Room.
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Ethridge Knight
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Gluck, Louise.
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Nohrnberg, James, 1941-
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Schwartz, Lloyd
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Hejinian, Lyn
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American poet, publisher, and editor, born in San Francisco in 1941. Associated with the Language School of contemporary poetry. Publisher of Tuumba Press chapbooks since the late 1970s and editor of Poetics journal since 1982. An important figure in promoting the avant-garde poetry of her day. Has spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. From the description of Lyn Hejinian papers, 1973-1994. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat recor...
Mattison, Alice
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Paley, Grace, 1922-2007
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Grace Paley (b. Grace Goodside, Dec. 11, 1922, Bronx, NY-d. Aug. 22, 2007, Thetford, VT) attended Hunter College and The New School where she studied with W. H. Auden. She married June 20, 1942, Grace Goodside married cinematographer Jess Paley in 1942 and had two children before getting divorced. Paley married poet Robert Nichols 1n 1972. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College. Her first collection was published in 1959. A known pacifist and social activist, Paley joined the War Resisters Leagu...
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
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This collection covers the years of William Carlos Williams's medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a year of service at a New York City hospital, a semester of medical study in Leipzig, and the period when he was setting up his medical practice and courting his future wife, Florence Herman, in his home town of Rutherford, N.J. During this time, his younger brother Edgar went from engineering and architectural studies at M.I.T. to further study of architecture at the American Academ...
Libbey, Elizabeth
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Kevin Starr, English 177, Harvard University.
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Nguyen, Duy
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Movius, Geoffrey
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Liebowitz, Kathryn
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O'Driscoll, Dennis
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Walter de la Mare
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Hughes, Ted
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Ted Hughes (1930-1998), poet laureate, was born at Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, in 1930, the son of William Henry Hughes and Edith Farrar Hughes. He was educated at Mexborough Grammar School, having moved there in 1937, when his father opened a newsagent's shop. In 1948, he won a scholarship to Cambridge, and read English at Pembroke College before changing to Archaeology and Anthropology, graduating in 1954. At Cambridge he met Sylvia Plath (d 1963), whom he married in 1956. The year after his marri...
Prof. Harry Levin.
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Maria Hadjipauldu-Trigeorgis.
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Hernandez, Miguel
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Frederick Seidel.
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Trumbull Stickney
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Stanley Kunitz
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Sargent, Daniel
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Alan Myers
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Ted Genoways
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George Santayana
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Startis Haviaras.
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Mario Luzi.
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Fitzgerald, Robert
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Perkins, David
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Johnston, Denis, 1901-1984
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Irish dramatist, author, journalist, and theater director; b. William Denis Johnston; d. 1984. From the description of Denis Johnston collection, 1917-1955. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968752 Denis Johnston was an Irish playwright and writer. He was born in Dublin and educated at Dublin, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Harvard Law School, receiving an M.A. and LL.M. from Cambridge in 1926. He became interested in playwriting while he was at Harvard. Upon his return t...
Gertrude Stein
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Richard Dyer-Bennet
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A. C. McGill
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Culler, Jonathan D.
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Robert Frost
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Debra Spark
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Yasin, Mehmet.
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Schechter, Ruth Lisa
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Born 1917; died 1989. Ruth Lisa Schechter was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1917. She grew up in New York City. Throughout much of her life, Schechter worked in New York hospitals. She began writing seriously in the 1960s and worked as a poetry therapist at a rehabilitation center. She served as a mentor for young poets, lectured at colleges, and participated in many poetry readings. Schechter was a member of P.E.N. and of the Poetry Society of America. She also founded the Croton Council of ...
Dr. Donnell, William E. Massey.
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Aldrich, Jennifer.
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Frank O'Connor
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British Council (Spain)
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The British Council is the United Kingdoms public diplomacy and cultural organisation. Part of its work is to send British writers on trips abroad in order to help international artistic understanding. From the guide to the British Council letters and reports, 1960-2001, (Reading University: Special Collections Services) ...
Inez, Colette
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Douglas Hyde
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Alan Williamson
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William Wordsworth
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Birkerts, Sven
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Walt Whitman
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Melnyczuk, Askold
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Anne Elliot
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Fitzgerald, Sally
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Sally Fitzgerald (1917-2000) was a writer and editor of several volumes of Flannery O'Connor's letters and works. Sally and her husband, Robert Fitzgerald, met Flannery O'Connor in 1949, while O'Connor was finishing a fellowship at the Yaddo Community in New York. O'Connor then lived with the Fitzgeralds in Connecticut while writing her first novel, WISE BLOOD. In 1969, the Fitzgeralds co-edited MYSTERY AND MANNERS: OCCASIONAL PROSE OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Sally then embarked on the project of com...
Williamson, Alan
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Mary Karr
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Corbett, William
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Robson, Jeremy
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O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964
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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia-d. August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), Southern American novelist and short story writer, the daughter of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She attended parochial schools in Savannah before moving to Milledgeville after the death of her father in 1941. After finishing high school in Milledgeville, she attended the Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College and State Univers...
Hall, Donald, 1928-....
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Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher. From the description of Compositions 1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609338 From the description of Papers, 1956-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357326 From the guide to the Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Compositions, 1962., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit...
Recorded by the British Council for the Poetry Room.
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Allen Tate
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Everson, William, 1912-1994
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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...
Bennett, Bruce
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Stephen Sandy
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Ray Lindquist
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Harvard Musical Theatre Group.
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Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959
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Macgreevy, Thomas
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Fred Marchant
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Mitchell, Stephen
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Adrienne Rich
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Bernhard, Thomas
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 to Edward Dickinson (AC 1823) and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She attended Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847, then enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847 to 1848. She remained in Amherst for the rest of her life, and traveled only briefly to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. For virtually her entire adult life, Emily lived in the Dickinson home at 280 Main Street with h...
Jonathan Aaron
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Kline, George L. (George Louis), 1921-
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George L. Kline, professor emeritus at Bryn Mawr College, is a scholar of philosophy and literature and translates Russian prose and poetry. His translations include the poetry of Joseph Brodsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. From the description of George Louis Kline papers, 1965-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702194823 From the guide to the George Louis Kline papers, 1965-2000, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) ...
Dom Julian Stead.
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Bang, Mary Jo
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Ted Alevizos
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Peter Taylor
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Egan O Rahilly
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Cleanth Brooks.
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Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
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Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...
Hart, Janet
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Goedicke, Patricia
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Department of American Literature and Language and the Poetry Room.
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Bellow, Saul
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg
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Grove, Lee
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Šalamun, Tomaž.
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Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-....
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John Malcolm Brinnin (1916-1998) was a poet, critic, anthologist, and teacher who, among other accomplishments, helped to popularize Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in the United States as well as establishing the 92nd Street Y in New York City as a center for literary activity. A successful poet, Brinnin also authored a number of biographies as well as several works on travel. From the description of John Malcolm Brinnin papers, 1930-1981. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record i...
John Skelton
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Druce Drowd
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Mark Bramhall
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Van Le
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Lamont Poetry Series.
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Slavic Department, Harvard University.
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Fran Blakeslee
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Hyde Cox.
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Pastan, Linda, 1932-
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McHugh, Heather, 1948-....
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Shapiro, David, 1946-....
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Harvard Advocate.
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McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997
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David Thompson Watson McCord (1897-1997), noted poet and essayist, was graduated from Harvard College in 1921. He earned a masters degree in 1922, and in 1956 he was awarded Harvard's first honorary doctorate of humane letters. Well-known for his literary and humorous approach to fundraising, McCord served as Executive Director of the Harvard Fund from 1925 until his retirement in 1962 and was editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin from 1940 to 1946. From the description of Papers of ...
Tate, James
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Ponge, Francis
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Gilbert, Jack
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Peter Davison
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R. B. Perry.
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John Betjeman
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Stratis Haviaras
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Papandreou, Nicholas
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Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-
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Russian poet. From the description of Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko papers, circa 1945-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462158373 Biography Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was born on June 18, 1933 in Zima Junction, Siberia. His father, Aleksandr Gangnus, was a geologist who wrote poetry and taught Yevtushenko to love books. His mother, Zinaida Ermolayevna Yevtushenko, was a geologist and a singer. Both of Yev...
Grenier, Robert
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Morris Grey Fund.
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Heath, Andrew
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Abse, Dannie
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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x0000c2 ...
Win Pe, U
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Ungaretti, Giuseppe
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Ingalls, Jeremy, 1911-2000
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Jeremy Ingalls (1911-2000), J1932, G1933, H1965, was a famous poet and scholar, authoring such books as The Metaphysical Sword and The Galilean Way. After leaving Tufts with a Masters in 1933, Ingalls taught high school until she was hired as Assistant Professor of American Literature at Western College in 1941. She remained at Western until 1947, when she was invited to act as resident poet at Rockford College in Illinois. During her tenure at Rockford, Ingalls served as Director of Asian Studi...
MacCaig, Norman, 1910-1996
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Booth, Phillip
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Honig, Edwin
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Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892
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American poet and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, Mass., to Joseph B. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644204873 Cranch was a Unitarian minister, poet, author, artist, editor, humorist, and member of the New England transcendentalist group. From the description of Christopher Pearse Cranch illustrations of the New Philosophy, ca. 1837-1839. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612709068 Artist...
Ellen Wilbur.
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Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
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Kathleen Raine was born in London, her father was a schoolmaster, and the family strict Methodists. She was sent to stay with an aunt in rural Northumberland for the duration of World War I, an idyllic childhood period she later recalled in 'Farewell Happy Fields' (1973). She was educated at Ilford County High School and came to Girton as an Exhibitioner to read Natural Sciences then Moral Sciences 1926-29. While she was at Cambridge she began writing poetry and also made long-term friendships w...
Kushner, Alexander
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Stone, Ruth
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Jill McCorkle.
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Amy Boesky
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Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966
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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), writer, editor, and teacher. In 1937, shortly after graduating from New York University, Schwartz published an acclaimed short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" in the first issue of Partisan Review. In addition to his writing, he served as poetry editor of the Partisan Review and later the New Republic. Schwartz wrote poetry, short stories and essays, criticism, and plays throughout his life but he never established himself as the writer that early praise s...
Richard Eberhart
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David Gewanter
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Barbara Johnson.
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David Kahn
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Harvard Universtiy.
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James Lincoln Huntington.
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Fitzgerald, Michael L.
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Valentine Rice
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Jane Kenyon
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James McIntyre.
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Dillard, Annie
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Annie Dillard was born Meta Ann Doak on April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Hollins College near Roanoke, Virginia, and studied creative writing and religion. In her sophomore year, she married her creative writing professor, Richard Dillard, who had a strong influence on her writing. Dillard finished her undergraduate degree in English literature and completed a Masters in Fine Arts from Hollins, in 1968. After graduate school, Dillard spent her tim...
Anzilloti, Rolando.
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Padan Aram.
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Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006
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American poet Kunitz won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 for SELECTED POEMS and held the position of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976. In 2000 he was named United States Poet Laureate. He has also translated the work of a number of Russian poets. From the description of Atlantic Monthly Press author files of Stanley Kunitz, 1965-1983. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 177477000 Poet; New York, N.Y. From the...
Bruce Smith.
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Ron Loewinsohn.
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Pat Fay
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Villanueva, Tino
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Poet and writer Tino Villanueva won the American Book Award for Scene From the Movie Giant, which was inspired by his boyhood in San Marcos, Texas. From the description of Tino Villanueva Papers, 1985-1998. (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 50138306 Poet and writer Tino Villanueva was born on December 11, 1941, in San Marcos, Texas to a family of migrant workers. Because of the demands of traveling to harvest crops, Villanueva was never ab...
Larsen, Carl
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Lux, Thomas, 1962-....
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Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
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Liam Rector.
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Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882-1964
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Canadian poet who spoke at the 132nd birthday celebration for Abraham Lincoln held at the Mid-Day Luncheon Club in Springfield, Illinois. From the description of Lincoln, 1941. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882413 E.J. Pratt was a Canadian poet. From the description of E.J. Pratt collection. [1930]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676747700 ...
Dickey, James.
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American novelist and poet, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His southern roots are clearly evident in his writing. He is the the author of more than 17 books of poetry and 14 books of prose. From the description of Papers, 1954-1970 (inclusive), 1957-1967 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180763 Dickey is an American novelist, poet, essayist and educator. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey is the author of more than 17 books of poetry and 14 books of prose. ...
Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich.
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Dowden, Stephen
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Barry Boyce
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Graham, Jorie
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James Reeves
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Michael Fitzgerald
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Poetry Room, Joiner Center at UMass, Boston.
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Peter Orr.
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Andrew Marvell
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Rita Fletcher.
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Betjeman, Sir John.
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Rocco Scotolaro
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Hazel O'Donnell
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British Council / Poetry Room.
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British Council. Recorded Sound Section
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Padgett, Ron, 1942-....
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Padgett was born on June 17, 1942, in Tulsa, OK; A.B., Columbia Univ., 1964; poetry workshop instructor, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, New York City, 1968-69; poet in various NYC Poets in the Schools programs, 1969-76; cofounded Full Court Press publishers in 1973; writer in the community, South Carolina Arts Commission, 1976-78; director, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, 1978-81; director of publications, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, beginning in 1982; published works include: Seventeen : col...
Brautigan, Richard
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Biographical Information Richard Gary Brautigan, 1935-1984 American novelist, short story writer, and poet. 1935 Born 30 January in Tacoma, Washington, oldest child of Bernard F. Brautigan and Mary Lull Brautigan. Very little is known about his childhood, which he refused to discuss. Some sources say that Brautigan never knew his father, others say that his father ne...
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
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British writer of essays, short stories, and novels. From the description of Letter to Mrs. Brownrigg [?], ca. 1930. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122570785 Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1923) was an Anglo-Irish author. Among her many novels are The last September (1929), The house in Paris (1935), The death of the heart (1938), The heat of the day (1948), A world of love (1955), and Eva Trout; or, changing scenes (1968). Her othe...
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
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Sarah Orne Jewett was one of America's foremost regional writers. She produced novels, stories, and sketches, generally concerned with the lives and traditions of women in the rural areas of coastal New England. Her gentle, well-observed, respectful style transcends the limitations of genre and continue to make her work relevant. From the description of Sarah Orne Jewett letter to Loulie, ca. 1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54429003 ...
César Vallejo
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Heath-Stubbs, John, 1918-2006
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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00012b John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, the poet, was born in London in 1918 and educated at Worcester College for the Blind and The Queen's College, Oxford; he published his first poems in the wartime volume, Eight Oxford Poets . He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University between 1952 and 1955, then taught in foreign universities for several...
Turner, Alberta.
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Benedikt, Michael
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Richard Ellmann
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John Donne
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Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929
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American educator and poet, author of "America the Beautiful." From the description of Typed letter signed : Wellesley, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1928 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867999 American educator and author. From the description of America the beautiful : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672042 American author and poet. From the description of Letters, 1901-1918. (Unknown)...
British Council for the Poetry Room.
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Torrence, Ridgley.
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Thomas Lux
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Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996
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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...
Morris Gray Fund.
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Pack, Robert
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Brooks, Maria Gowen, 1794 or 1795-1845
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American poet. From the description of Ballad : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed : Cuba, 1841 Mar. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134621 Maria Gowen Brooks (1794 or 5-1845) was an American poet who lived in New England and Cuba. Brooks was also known as Maria del Occidente. From the guide to the Maria Gowen Brooks papers, ca. 1827-1946, ca. 1827-1843, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Maria G...
Corbett, Bill
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Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grade) of high school. His parents moved up to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and he returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University where he recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He would return to Brown...
Berry, Wendell, 1934-....
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American author and professor. From the description of Wendell Berry postcard : to Mr. Bob DeMott, 1973 July 14. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203844 ...
Hass, Robert
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Gibson, Charles
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Cary, Alice
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James Merrill.
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Whitman, Walt
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), noted American poet, essayist, and journalist, was author of Leaves of Grass in which the poem "Spirit that Form'd this Scene" appears beginning in 1881. Writing in 1902, Oscar Lovell Triggs notes that Leaves of Grass developed over time, beginning with its first appearance in 1855 (see Oscar Lovell Triggs, "The Growth of "Leaves of Grass," The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman (1902), 101-21). Triggs notes that the poems of every edition were written on th...
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : Jackson, Miss., to Charles Ryskamp, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875021 The short story writer and novelist Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Miss. In 1946 she published Delta wedding, her first novel. Her novel The optimist's daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. She was a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges....
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-....
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John Malcolm Brinnin (1916-1998) was a poet, critic, anthologist, and teacher who, among other accomplishments, helped to popularize Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in the United States as well as establishing the 92nd Street Y in New York City as a center for literary activity. A successful poet, Brinnin also authored a number of biographies as well as several works on travel. From the description of John Malcolm Brinnin papers, 1930-1981. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record i...
e. e. Cummings
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Stalinslaw Baranczek.
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W. S. Merwin
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Henn, T. R. (Thomas Rice)
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Drifting Waters
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Morris Gray Fund and Woodberry Poetry Room.
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Empson, William, 1906-1984
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English critic and teacher. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (29) : London, Sheffield, Worcester, Beijing, and Singapore, to John Davenport, 1940 Aug. 7-1966 Mar. 7 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870769 William Empson, born in 1791, was educated at Winchester and then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He began to contribute to the Edinburgh review in 1832 and from then until 1849 he wrote more than 60 articles on law, politics, a...
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962
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Paris review
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
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David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, near Nottingham, to Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall. He attended Nottingham University College, and in 1908 he took a teaching position at Davidson Road School in Croydon. Lawrence wrote in his spare time, and in 1911, with the help of Ford Maddox Hueffer, he published his first novel, The White Peacock . Poor health forced him to resign his teaching job this same year, at which time he bec...
Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
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Laura Riding, American writer, was born in New York and educated at Brooklyn High and Cornell Univ. She began writing poetry while in college and her early poems appeared in, The fugitive (edited by Allen Tate and Robert Warren), as well as Harriet Monroe's, Poetry (a magazine). In 1926, she published her first volume of poetry, The close chaplet. Riding has written and published criticism, essays, a journal, poetry, novels and short stories. She also ran the Seizin Press for some time. Her Coll...
Anthony Hecht.
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Senghor, Lold Sr.
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Silkin, Jon.
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British poet. From the description of Jon Silkin Papers, 1952-1956. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 31189937 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002bd Jon Silkin was a British poet who authored and edited many volumes of poetry. His Selected Poems were published in 1980 and in a revised edition, 1994. He was founding co-editor of Stand (1952-1997). He was a ...
Robert Hayden
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Robert Shaw
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Hofmann, Michael.
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Lucio Piccolo
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John Manifold
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Anne Hussey
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Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935
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Miss Lizette W. Reese (1856-1935) taught school in Baltimore, Maryland for 45 years. She retired in 1921 and concentrated her efforts as a poetess. Many collections of her poems were published in book form. From the description of Papers, 1928-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122498089 American writer. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Baltimore, Maryland, to Wilbur Needham, Hinsdale, Illinois, 1923 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat r...
Tom Sleigh
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Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880
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George Moses Horton was born into slavery on William Horton's plantation, likely in 1798, in Northampton County, North Carolina. William Horton's estate was broken up in 1819; George was separated from his family. As a child he taught himself to read and compose poetry. By the age of 20, he began visiting the University of North Carolina and selling to the students acrostic love poems based on the names of their girlfriends. George was able to buy some time from his owner, James Horton; he was n...
Merwin, W. S.
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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
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Author, translator, and traveler. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor, 1856-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064729 American journalist. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor [manuscript], 1847-1878. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972079 From the description of Poem and letter, 1877 June 26, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972081 From the description of Letter to a member of the...
Heather McHugh.
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Wright, Charles
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Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent).
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Woodberry Poetry Room (studio).
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Charles Stewart.
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Agha, Shahid Ali
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Wilson, Edmund
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Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. From the description of Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596904 From the guide to the Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American author and critic. From the description of Typewritten letters signed...
Fu, Tu
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Shelia Hart
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Savvidēs, Geōrgios P.
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Paul Muldoon.
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Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963
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Plath (1932-1963) was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1955) and Newnham College, Cambridge University (A.B., 1957). She married Ted Hughes in 1956 and taught English at Smith College, 1957-1958. Plath and Hughes returned to England in Dec. 1959 and separated in 1962. In her lifetime she published two books: The Colossus and other poems (1960) and The bell jar (1963). On Feb. 11, 1963 she committed suicide in London. Her Ariel poems were edited by Hughes and published in 1965. From t...
Updike, John
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American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...
William Meredith
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Tiller, Terrence.
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KENNETH, KOCH
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Bidart, Frank, 1939-....
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American poet and professor at Wellesley College and Brandeis University. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Joe Brainard, New York City, 1991 Nov. 21. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 31911238 ...
Milburn, Michael, 1957-
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Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980
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Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet, playwright, biographer, and writer of children's literature. From the description of Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers, 1920-1976 bulk (1931-1976). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122570595 From the guide to the Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers, 1920-1976, 1931-1976, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American poet. From the ...
O'Hara, Frank
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Frank O'Hara lived in New York and was a noted American poet, playwright, and art critic. He was a leading member of the so-called New York School of poets. His works include "Lunch Poems" (1965) and "Collected Poems" (1971). From the description of Frank O'Hara collection. [ca1960-1964]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 651603420 Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was a poet. From the description of Papers, 1946-1973. (Columbia University In the Cit...
Hilaire Belloc
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The Poet's Theater.
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Piatt, John James, 1835-1917
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Poet and journalist. From the description of Letter, 1878 January 11, Cincinnati, Ohio, to city editor of Boston evening journal. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 14993504 American poet John James Piatt was born in Indiana, worked for the Ohio State Journal, and attended college in Ohio but did not graduate. He worked variously in journalism and as a civil servant in Washington, D.C., and eventually became United States consul in Cork, Ireland. He produced several...
Jorie Graham.
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Paul Hannigan
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Mehmet Yasin
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Alī, Tāhā Muhammad
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Wilson, Joyce
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Irena Klepfisz
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Spivack, Kathleen
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Morris Gray Fund, Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
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Dischell, Stuart
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...
David Perkins.
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Signet Society and Harvard Advocate.
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Gertrude Clayton
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Woodberry Poetry Room, Poetry Society of America, Academy of American Poets.
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Lyon Phelps.
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Hix, H. L.
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Peggy Rizza
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Edward, Lear
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Auster, Paul, 1947-....
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Paul Auster (b. 1947) is a Brooklyn-based novelist, screenplay writer, poet, essayist and translator. From the description of Paul Auster collection of papers, 1999-2006 2000-2005. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 770725385 From the guide to the Paul Auster Papers, 1963-1995, 1972-mid-1995, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) From the guide to the Paul Auster collection of papers, 19...
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Prolific poet, Florentine exile, and advocate of the Italian vernacular's destined role in the diffusion of literature, philosophy, and political thought. Dante's Divine Comedy proves its importance as a testimony to the beliefs, customs, and the contemporary experience of the late medieval period whose sense of vision prefigures the first signs of Renaissance civilization. This collection original works, criticial works, and memorabilia remains the largest of its kind outside of Italy (Enciclop...
Brock-Broido, Lucie
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Donald Hall.
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Cao Thien Le
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Jefferson, Christopher
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Louis MacNeice
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Lowell, Robert, 1816-1891
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Protestant Episcopal clergyman and poet. From the description of Letters to the Rev. Julius Hammond Ward [manuscript], 1864-1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812010 ...
Levine, Miriam.
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Henry Reed
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Von Schmidt, Eric
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Eric von Schmidt was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1931. He has worked as a graphic artist since that time and has been engaged in numerous professions and hobbies. He has illustrated over fifty children's books and over one hundred record and book jackets. He is also a songwriter and musician. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 50, p. 208-210. From the guide to the Eric Von Schmidt Collection, 1963, (University of Minnesota Libraries ...
Timothy Mayer
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Sandburg, Carl
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
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Stephen Crane was a novelist, poet, and journalst. He was born November 1, 1871, at 14 Mulberry Place, Newark, New Jersey. Crane is best known for his novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) that depicted the experiences of a soldier in the Civil War. During the Spanish-American War (1898), Crame served as a correspondent. In 1897, he moved to England and met Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Crane died of tuberclosis in 1900. From the description of Newark Stephen Crane collection, 1897-...
Mark Van Doren
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Reverend Charles Price
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Poetry Room.
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Gander, Forrest, 1956-....
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Richards, I. A.
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I. A. Richards.
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Padraic Fallon
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Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
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Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...
Marchant, Fred
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Haberly, Loyd, 1896-1981
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Professor, writer, printer and hand binder. From the description of Memoirs of people, places, events and interests / Loyd Habery. 1973. (Fairleigh Dickinson University). WorldCat record id: 26231011 Loyd Haberly, American educator and poet, was born in Ellsworth, Iowa. He was educated at Reed College, studied law at Harvard, received his master's degree from Oxford, and later acquired a doctorate of laws degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1954. He was the owner o...
Anderson, Lee
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Efstathiadi, Maria.
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Helen Vendler
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Scott, Winfield Townley
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Kenyon, Jane
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Heller, Eric
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Corliss Lamont Fund for the Poetry Room.
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Monroe Engel.
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Kathleen Raine
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Velimir Khlebnikov
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Banks, Russell, 1940-....
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Theodore Roethke
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Stickney, Trumbull, 1874-1904
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James Tate
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Department of English and American Literature and Language/Poetry Room.
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Morris Gray Lecture Series
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Rumaker, Michael, 1932-....
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Author and poet, early associate of Beat writers in San Francisco, Calif., and student at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C. From the description of Michael Rumaker papers, ca. 1957-1990. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28420364 Michael Rumaker was born in South Philadelphia to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker, the fourth of nine children. He spent his first seven months in the Preston Retreat charity ward, too sickly to be b...
Munro, Alice
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Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
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X. J. Kennedy
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Department of English and American Literature and Language and the Poetry Room.
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Lucie Brock-Broido
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...
Irving, John, 1959-....
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Epithet: of Add MS 20115 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x0002d7 ...
Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971
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Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist. The witty, idiosyncratic, and individual style of her poems make her writing difficult to classify but easy to appreciate. From the description of Stevie Smith letters and poems, 1946-1966. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50163405 British author; born Florence Margaret Smith. From the description of Papers, 1943-1970. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 26090149 ...
Gregory, Horace
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American poet. From the description of Letters, 1936-1971 and undated. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13640555 Horace Gregory (1898-1982) was an American poet and critic. From the guide to the Horace Gregory Collection, 1933-1943, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) ...
Duncan, Robert A.
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Epithet: film maker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000248 ...
Robert Giroux
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Hillman, Brenda
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Toma Tasovac.
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Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, Morris Gray Fund.
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Blumenthal, Michael
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Alfred, William, 1922-1999
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William Alfred (1922-1999) was a playwright, poet and beloved Harvard professor specializing in early English literature. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922 to working-class parents, served in the Army tank corp in World War II, and received his doctoral degree in English from Harvard in 1954 before joining the faculty, where he stayed until 1991. Alfred's works include: Hogan's Goat, Agamemnon, The Curse of an Aching Heart, and Nothing Doing. Luminaries he taught, influenced, or corresponded with ...
Jerry Dale
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Kumin, Maxine, 1925-....
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John Ashbery.
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Moira O'Neill.
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Corkery, Christopher.
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Holub, Miroslav, 1923-1998
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Swenson, Tree
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Ethel Hatch
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Ferry, David
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Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887
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Born on July 22, 1849 in New York City, Emma Lazarus was the fourth of seven surviving children to Sephardic-Ashkenazi parents Moses and Esther (Nathan) Lazarus. Lazarus was most likely privately tutored; she was proficient in German, French, and Italian. Her Jewish education consisted of knowledge of the Bible and observing a form of Sabbath and holidays, but as one of Lazarus’ associates said “the religious side of Judaism had little interest for Miss Lazarus, or for any member of her family.”...
Robbins, Martin
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Brother Leo Pelkington
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Posey, Alexander Lawrence, 1873-1908
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Patriotis, Hector.
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James Agee
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Lavin, Mary
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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000318 ...
Peter Orlovsky.
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
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Poet and author. From the description of Edna St. Vincent Millay papers, 1832-1992 (bulk 1900-1950). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066360 American poet. From the description of ALS : Camden, Maine, to Eleanor Morgan Patterson, 1916 June 15. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122442927 From the description of Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay [manuscript], 1920 August. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812089 ...
Wevill, David, 1935-....
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Margaret Alexious
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Downing, Eric
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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
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Pasternak was a Russian poet, who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 for his novel Doctor Zhivago. Reavey was an English surrealist poet. From the description of Letters to George Reavey, 1931-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77990740 From the guide to the Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Letters to George Reavey, 1931-1960., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 ...
Mathiesen, Robert
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Bunting, Basil
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Although British educator, journalist, and poet Basil Bunting has published numerous books of poetry, most critics consider Briggflatts: an autobiography his best work. Bunting was born on March 1, 1900, in Scotswood, Northumberland, England and died on April 17, 1985, in Hexham, England. From the description of Briggflatts : an autobiography : typescript, 1965. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 503472339 British modernist poet. From the descr...
Harrison, Jim, 1937-....
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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0003e6 Epithet: Secretary, Finance Committee, Hull Trades and Labour Council British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0003e5 Jim Harrison (1937-), poet and novelist. From the description of Suite entire : the complete poems of Jim Harrison, 1998. (Unknown). ...
Poetry Room and WHRB? / Harvard Vocarium.
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Nella Rizzi
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Ferguson, William
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Epithet: of Add MS 34417 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0003ca Epithet: of Sloane MS 4040 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0003cc Epithet: of Add MS 36154 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0003cb Epithet: Commissioner...
Octavio Paz
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Robert Fitzgerald
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Sally Fitzgerald
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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...
Duffin, K.E.
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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x000278 ...
Noelle Kocot.
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Delmore Schwartz
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Under the auspices of the Department of English and American Literature and Language and the Poetry Room.
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Robert Mathiesen.
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Alexander Sedgewick.
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David Kuhn.
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Professor Ludwig.
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Baez, Joan, 1941-
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Joan Baez (b. Jan. 9, 1941) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. She got her start during the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and is well known for her performance of "We Shall Overcome" at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....
Miranda, Gary
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Kennedy, X. J.
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Ponsot, Marie.
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Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973
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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000343 American poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic . From the description of Letter, 1969 January 26 (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 148050827 Conrad Aiken was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. From the description of Conrad Aiken collection of papers, 1913-1963. (...
Vitorio Bodini
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Lisker, Roy
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Macleish, Archibald
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...
Verba, Sidney
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Ezra Pound
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Berrigan, Ted
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Born in 1934 in Providence, Rhode Island, poet Ted Berrigan attended the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He was a second-generation member of the New York school of poets, and along with Ron Padgett, published a small literary magazine, C, during 1963 and 1964. He taught at Yale University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, the University of Michigan, and Essex University in England, and also served as poet-in-residence at the City College of New York. Among his published volumes of poetry are The Son...
Dipalma, Ray
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Kavanagh, Patrick, 1907-1973
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Fran Malina
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Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930
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Stead, Dom Julian.
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Aridjis, Homero
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Richard Wilbur
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Morgan, John
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Epithet: of Add MS 22248 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000175 Epithet: of Penge Place, county Surrey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000179 Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 14866 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00017b ...
AI
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Deborah Digges
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919
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American journalist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Home" [Johnstown Center, Wisconsin], to "Dear Hattie", 1872? Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587512 From the description of Papers of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1884-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083828 Popular poet and Theosophist. Wilcox was born in Wisconsin and began writing poetry at an early age. Among her best-known works are "Poems of passion," "Poem...
Halpern, Martin, 1945-....
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Martin Halpern, playwright. Bernard Malamud, author of source material. From the description of The tenants: typescript, 1975. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455070 Martin Halpern, playwright. From the description of Total recall: typescript, 1976. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533550 ...
Derek Walcott
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Day Lewis, Cecil.
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Louise Bogan
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Kevin McGrath
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Sweeney, Matthew.
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Sarton, May, 1912-1995
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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...
British Council, Recorded Sound Section and Woodberry Poetry Room.
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K. E. Duffin
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Kiely, Robert.
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Olds, Sharon
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Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Honig, Edward.
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Ersi, Mazur.
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Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, Poetry Society of America, Academy of American Poets.
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Allen Grossman
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Clarke, Austin, 1896-1974
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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x000037 Irish poet, playwright and novelist Austin Clarke (1896–1974) was lauded by members of the Irish Literary Renaissance such as George Russell [AE] and Padraic Colum. W. B. Yeats was a strong influence on Clarke's poems and plays. Although Clarke also wrote novels and memoirs, he is best remembered for his poetry. ...
Feldman, Ruth.
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Mazur, Gail
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John Burt
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Whitman, Ruth, 1922-1999
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Poet and educator Ruth Whitman graduated from Radcliffe College (B.A. 1944) and Harvard University (M.A. 1947). She has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts, and was founder and president of Poets Who Teach, Inc. She is the author of Blood and Milk Poems (1963), The Passion of Lizzie Borden: New and Selected Poems (1973), Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey (1977), and Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected (1991). ...
Richard Poirier.
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Hawkes, John, 1937-
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Robert Keily
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Nin, Anais.
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Wingfield, Sheila
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Thomas Wyatt
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Schwartz, Joel (Joel B.), 1950-
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Toi Derricotte
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Olson, Charles, 1910-1970
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Charles Olson, the leading voice of the Black Mountain poets, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was a notable student at Wesleyan University, where his groundbreaking work on Herman Melville evolved into the highly praised monograph, Call Me Ishmael. Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt, Olson worked his way up through the Democratic Party, but quit after Roosevelt's death, and began a brilliant career as a writer and educator. His manifesto, Projective Verse, influenced a generation of poets ...
James Wright
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Abbe, George, 1911-1989
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Poet and novelist, George Abbe was born in Connecticut in 1911, has published several novels and volumes of poety, and taught English at a number of New England institutions. Voices in the Square was his first published novel. Abbe died on March 15, 1989. From the description of Papers of George Abbe. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 228415637 American author; b. George Bancroft Abbe; d. 1989. From the description of George Abbe collection, 191...
Erica Funkhauser
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Holmes, David J.
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Bly, Robert
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For details of Robert Bly's biography, see: Robert Bly papers (Mss 81) . From the guide to the Robert Bly Men's Movement series, 1980-1990s, 2001, 2003-2004, 2006, 2009, undated, 1980-1990s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]) From the guide to the Robert Bly Plays manuscripts series, 1950s-1990s, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]) Fr...
Robert Pinsky
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Montminy, Tracy.
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Kingstow, R. P.
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Alastair Reid
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Joseph Brodsky
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Robert Browning
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Dylan, Thomas
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Maxwell, Glyn, 1962-....
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Corliss Lamont Fund.
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Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Louisville, to Miss Greene, 1914 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129671 From the description of The Vikings : autograph poem signed, 1886 Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135829 Poet and author of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Madison Julius Cawein : miscellaneous papers, 1889-1916. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46764382 ...
Roger Shattuck
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Mark Pollack
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Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund of Radcliffe College and The.
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William Plomer
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Summer School Reading Program.
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Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University.
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Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
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American poet and critic. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in poetry, 1939. Professor of English at Harvard, 1946-48, and Rutgers, 1953-61. From the description of Letter, 1980 Feb. 4, Key West, Fla., to Henry F. Pommer, Ripon, Wis. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364896 Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. From the description of John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985). (Unknown). W...
Wright, James
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Morris Gray Reading Series
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Howard Griffin
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Canaday, John, 1961-
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Theodore Spencer.
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Kenneth Fearing
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Berryman, John
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John Holmes
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Woodberry Poetry Room, Dept. of Eng. & American Lit & Lang., Dept. of Continuing Ed., Friends of HCL.
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David Ferry
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Nelson, Paul.
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Ware Lecture.
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Kenneth Rosen.
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Dove, Rita Frances, 1952-
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Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995 she served as the Poet Laureate of the United States. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987, and also she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio and graduated from Miami University. She held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany and received her MFA from the University of Iowa. She has taught at Universtiy ...
Margarita Guidocci
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The Poets' Theatre.
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Papandreou, Nicholas C.
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Prof. I. A. Richards.
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Levine, Philip
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Robert Graves
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Bishop, Elizabeth
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
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W.B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865-1939), poet and dramatist, born in County Sligo, Ireland. From the description of W.B. Yeats collection, 1875-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863171 British poet. From the description of Letter : to William Weber, Brooklyn, New York : holograph, 12 May [no year]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18786005 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. From t...
Hart Crane
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Hopkins, Kenneth
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Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988), the poet, novelist, and creator of the Grasshopper Press, Derby. For fuller details of his life and achievements see The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English . From the guide to the Typed poems by Kenneth Hopkins, with some correspondence with James Guthrie, 1942-1943, (Leeds University Library) English author. From the guide to the The girl who died, 1955, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...
Antony, W.
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Roman Jakobson
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C. D. Wright.
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Leigh Haffrey
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Henry, James.
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Gomes, Peter
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Naomi Bushman
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Woodberry Poetry Room
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Lewis Bakanowsky
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LAFARGE, CHRISTOPHER
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Amy Clampitt.
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The Academy of American Poets; The Department of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University.
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Spencer, Theodore, 1902-1949
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Spencer earned his Harvard PhD in 1928. From the description of Death in Elizabethan drama : a study in convention and opinion. 1926. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075635 Spencer was a professor of English at Harvard University. From the description of Papers concerning Nosce teipsum, 1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612760083 Theodore Spencer was an American poet, essayist, playwright, and short story writer. Fro...
Gunn, Thom
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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
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American poet and educator. From the description of Letter to Mrs. F.E. Lund [manuscript], 1968 February 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833566 John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910-1913, and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1914, where he taught English until 1937. While at Vanderbil...
John Berryman
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Tate, Allen
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Don Share
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Milosz, Czeslow.
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Morrison, Theodore
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Holmes, John
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Epithet: of Sloane MS 4056 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00025e Epithet: Captain; of Add MS 35668 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000254 Epithet: archeologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000252 Epithet: Clerk ...
Ellen Sitgreavesvail Motter Fund of Hilles Library.
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Louise Gluck.
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Causley, Charles, 1917-2003
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Charles Stanley Causley, poet, teacher and broadcaster, the only son of Charles Causley and Laura Bartlett, was born in Launceston, Cornwall on 24th August 1917 and educated at Launceston National School, Horwell Grammar School, Launceston College and Peterborough Training College. His father, a groom and gardener, died in 1924 from tuberculosis exacerbated due to gas exposure during the First World War, and Charles left school at 15 to work in a builder's office and then for an ele...
Morton, David
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-....
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Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He moved to Canada in 1962, studied at Bishop's University in Quebec, the University of Toronto, and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, then became a university lecturer. He taught at the University of Western Ontario, 1966?-1973? He is known as a poet, playwright and novelist. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 (filmed, 1996). From the description of Michael Ondaatje collection. [ca. 1969]. (University of Victoria Libraries). W...
Cheever, John
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John Cheever was an American novelist and short-story writer. From the description of John Cheever collection of papers, 1942-1982. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164222 From the guide to the John Cheever collection of papers, 1942-1982, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer. From the description of John Cheever journals, ...
Drake, Joseph Rodman, 1795-1820
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American poet and physician. From the description of Papers of Joseph Rodman Drake [manuscript], 1815-1834. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870386 American poet. From the description of To fortune : autograph manuscript copy of the poem, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539202 Epithet: American poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x00014c ...
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
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Peterborough (Hillsborough Co.), N.H. poet. From the description of Papers, 1928. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36405152 Robinson was an American poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365637 From the description of Letters to Harry de Forest Smith, 1888-1936 (inclusive), 1890-1900 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505878 From the description...
Miller, Joaquin
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
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Poet and author. From the description of Papers of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1873-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067921 Paul Laurence Dunbar of Dayton, Ohio, was an African-American writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Dunbar is widely acknowledged as the first important black poet in American literature. He also worked at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, as an assistant clerk, 1897-1898. From the description of Paul Laurence Dunbar letters and leaf...
Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library)
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The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard was established in honor of Professor George Edward Woodberry. It was opened in 1931 in Widener Library and was moved in 1949 to Lamont Library. From the beginning, poetry readings, funded by the Morris Gray Fund, were given in the Woodberry Poetry Room. The Poetry Room now has assumed responsibility for recording all poetry readings given at Harvard. These include, in addition to those funded by the Morris Gray Fund (administered since 1939 by the English De...
Professor I. A. Richards.
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British Council and the Woodberry Poetry Room.
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Stafford, William, 1554-1612
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Epithet: of the Bottoms, co. Derby, gentleman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001084.0x0000ef ...
McClatchy, J.D., 1945-
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J. D. McClatchy (1945-) is an American poet, literary critic, and opera librettist. He teaches in the English department at Yale University and serves as editor of the Yale Review. From the description of J. D. McClatchy papers, 1940-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702158116 J. D. McClatchy was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1945. He was educated at Georgetown and Yale, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1974. He has published several books of poetry, including Ha...
Patrick Kavanaugh
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Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund of Radcliffe College.
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Elise Paschen.
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Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
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By Source, Fair use, Link Reynolds Price was born Edward Reynolds Price, in Macon, North Carolina, on 1 February 1933. He earned his B.A. degree from Duke University (1955) while on a full scholarship. After graduating, Price won a Rhodes scholarship, which allowed him to attend Merton College, Oxford. In 1958, Price received his Bachelor of letters from Merton College. His thesis focused on the English poet John Milton. Upon his return from Oxford, Price secured a position in the English d...
Pedro Salinas
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Barber, Jennifer
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Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867
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Poet, "poet laureate of the Confederacy" From the description of Papers: of Henry Timrod, 1867, n.d. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809839 Author and poet, of Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; known as "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy;" part-owner and editor, Daily South Carolinian newspaper; contributor, Russell's Magazine; son, of William Henry Timrod (1792-1838) and Thyrza Prince Timrod; husband of Kate Goodwin; father of William Timrod (1864...
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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James Stephens
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Yugoslav Cultural Club.
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Lloyd Schwartz
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Hillyer, Robert
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Luzi, Mario
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Peseroff, Joyce
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
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American author and intellectual. From the description of Authors take sides on Vietnam : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], 1968 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870148 Susan Sontag was an influential and controversial American writer, director, and political activist. She was born in New York city on January 16, 1933, raised in Tucson and Los Angeles. In 1949 she graduated from North Hollywood High School and began her undergraduate work at the University of C...
Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012
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Poet and educator. From the description of Papers of Louis Aston Marantz Simpson, 1943-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060779 Poet, born in British West Indies; has taught at New School of Social Research and University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Photographs of Louis Simpson, [n.d.]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689957 ...
Pinsky, Robert
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BIOGRAPHY Robert Pinsky, poet and literary critic, was born in 1940 in Long Beach, New Jersey. He studied English at Rutgers University (B.A., 1962) and Stanford University (M.A. and Ph.D., 1967). He has taught at the University of Chicago (1966-67), Wellesley College (1967-1980), and the University of California, Berkeley (1980-present). Since 1979, Pinsky has been poetry editor for The New Republic. Pinsky has published two volu...
Prof. Samuel Beer.
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Odysseus Elytis
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James, William
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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x000154 Epithet: Bishop of Durham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x00031b Epithet: Rector of Pitchcombe British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000326 Epithet: of Stowe MS 184 ...
Doreski, William
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Douglas Bush
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Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957
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Irish writer Oliver St. John Gogarty's (1878-1957) works were influenced by his career as a physician and his involvement in politics. Gogarty developed friendships with other members of the Irish Literary Renaissance, such as James Joyce and W. B. Yeats. Gogarty's poems were lauded by colleagues such as Yeats and George Russell (A.E.). Gogarty also published works under pseudonyms. Known as a satirist, Gogarty's works sometimes inspired controversy. From the description of Oliver St...
Stuart Dischell
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Corman, Cid
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American poet and editor of the small magazine Origin. From the description of Letters : Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Mr. & Mrs. Kirgo, 1951 May 8-July 9. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32415686 Highly prolific poet, translator, and prose writer, Cid Corman was born in Boston in 1924. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Tufts University in 1941, graduating in 1945. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Universit...
Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943-....
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Reverend Peter Gomes
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Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 1881-1958
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Spanish poet. From the description of Papers of Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1867-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455586 Biographical Note Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was born in 1881 in Moguer, Spain. He published his first book of poetry in 1900 with the help of Rubén Darío, the leader of the modernista poetry movement in Spain and influential mentor of Jiménez. During the Spanish Civil War, Jiménez moved first to Cuba and ...
Brenda Hillman
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Daniel Aaron
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Hart, Sheila
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Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-....
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Mazur, Grace Dane.
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Lanier, Sidney
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Epithet: American poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x000093 ...
Juan Marichal.
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Rolando Anzilloti.
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Strand, Mark, 1934-....
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Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
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American poet. From the description of Poetry manuscripts, [193-] (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18447266 American poet, translator. From the description of Louis Zukofsky Collection, 1910-1985. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122385750 Louis Zukofsky was born in Manhattan, on the lower east side, in 1904 to Pinchos and Channa Pruss Zukofsky, immi...
Różewicz, Tadeusz.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941
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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...
Woodbery Poetry Room.
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Muir, Willa
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Willa Muir (1890-1970) was born Wilhelmina Anderson in Montrose, Scotland. She studied Classics at the University of St Andrews between 1907 and 1910, graduating with a first class honours degree. She entered a career in education, achieving the position of vice-principal of Gypsy Hill Training College, London in 1918. The same year she met Edwin Muir (1887-1959), who was then a clerk in a Glasgow shipping office and was to become one of the most important Scottish poets of the twen...
Philip Larkin
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Charles Simic
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Hannigan, Paul
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Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 1915-1975
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Sydney Goodsir Smith was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 26 October 1915. He was the son of Sir Sydney Alfred Smith (1883-1969) the New Zealand-born medico-legal expert and Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at Edinburgh University (1928-1953). The young Sydney came to Scotland at the age of two. He briefly studied medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1930s, and then studied at Oriel College, Oxford, from which he was expelled, although he did manage to graduate with the degree of MA i...
Carrier, Constance
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Carrier was born July 29, 1908 to Lucius and Lillian (Jost) Carrier. She was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1929) and Trinity College (M.A., 1940). She taught English, French and Latin in high schools in New Britain and West Hartford, Conn. (1929-1969). Carrier translated The poems of Propertius, The poems of Tibullus and assisted in the translations of the plaies of Terence. Among her books of poetry are The middle voice (1955) and The angled road (1973). Her poetry and writings also appeared...
Zagajewski, Adam, 1945-....
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David Rivard
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Rivard, David, 1953-
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Andrzejewski, Jerzy.
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Sarah Lawrence College
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
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Edward Thomas
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Harper, Michael S., 1938-....
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Poet Laureate of Rhode Island and Professor of English at Brown University. In honor of Daniel Knowlton, a Rhode Island bookbinder who worked for many years at the Brown University Library. From the description of Mr. Knowlton Predicts : poem, [ca. 1993]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122615887 ...
Prigov, D.
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Wallace-Crabbe, Chris
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