America's First Poet - Anne Bradstreet
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Whittier’S 'Snow-Bound' - A Winter Tradition
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Rescuing Longfellow
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America’S First African-American Poet - Phillis Wheatley
As one might surmise, there was, indeed, a controversy over the authenticity of Phillis’ writing. That a young black slave girl could write like a John Milton was not a fact easily digested back in Colonial America, when slaves were considered ... [... more]
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Dickinson’S Nuance
That is the case with the poem, "There has been a Death, in the Opposite House." Poetry textbook editors Laurence Perrine (Sound and Sense), Louis Simpson (Introduction to Poetry), and Robert N. Linscott (Selected Poems and Letters of Emily ... [... more]
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Emily Dickinson – Transcending Pain
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Harlem Renaissance Poets
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), who was born in Topeka, Kansas, authored more than twenty books of poetry. Annie Allen won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. She published a novel, Maud Martha in 1953 and in 1972 her autobiography Report from Part One. In ... [... more]
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Robert Frost – Poetry For Every Season
Another spring poem that is seldom anthologized is called "Putting in the Seed." What do you notice about this poem's structure? Right! It's a sonnet. Is it an English or Italian sonnet? Or is it an innovative sonnet? A useful paper could ... [... more]
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Sara Teasdale’S Legacy Of Spiritual Joy
She was courted by poet Vachel Lindsay but married Ernst Filsinger in 1914. In 1915 her third collection of poems, Rivers to the Sea, was published. In 1916 she and her husband moved to New York City. In 1918 she was awarded the Columbia ... [... more]
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Sometimes A Poetaster - Henry David Thoreau
The self-effacing remark that he was “sometimes a Poetaster” no doubt sheds some light on Thoreau’s reputation as a poet—that attitude coupled with the fact that he did write fewer poems than essays. But on the other hand, Thoreau probably ... [... more]
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The Bay Psalm Book - America's First Book
The awkwardness is readily apparent, but as Mather (or Cotton) stated in the Preface, the purpose of the refashioned verse is not to arrive at elegant poetry but to make songs out of the psalms, which obviously meant to the clergymen that an ... [... more]
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The Poem That Saved A Ship - “Old Ironsides”
On September 16, 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem, “Old Ironsides,” appeared in response to a report in the Boston Daily Advertiser that the Navy was going to scrap the USS Constitution. The report was inaccurate; apparently, there were no plans ... [... more]
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