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Eric Schroeder - JStor  poet, painter, madrigal singer, talker, or as the "field marshal" of .... was born in England, and did not come to this country until well after he had .... Returning to America, Eric wrote up accounts of buildings he ... tion, "I shot an arrow in the air. ..... Muhamnmad's People; A Tale by Anthology. A Mosaic Translation. Portland,.
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Longfellow - Images - Search the Now: Waazon  Today's meditation features a poem by 19th century American writer Henry Wadsworth ... Despite what his nickname might suggest, Mr. Ralph Earl Madsen was born in ... lived in: 2.5 years; Rented Hailing from Wisconsin via Chicago and Portland, .... When Gary recited the Longfellow poem "I shot an arrow in the air," the...
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Catalog of Rare and Collectible Books  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a New England poet, born in Portland, Maine, in 1807. ... by the mechanics of their presentation: their truly original works are often scraps ... compositions: "The Arrow and the Song" ("I shot an arrow in the air.
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mudcat.org: Really Really Important Poem  Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM ..... As to "parlour floor":my Readers' Encyclopedia says Ogden Nash was born in America, ... Piet Hein wrote a number of poems, called "Grooks". ..... I shot an arrow in the air ..... 1969 by G. Legman, Published by Portland House, a Division of Random House Value...
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Re: Now, Maude, come with me.... - Google Groups  Feb 18, 2012 ... Johann Valentin Andre as its author, for his family crest, shown above .... five Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, then part of Massachusetts, ... he remains the only American poet represented with a bust.>> .... "I shot an arrow in the air, she fell to earth in Berkeley Square", parodies...
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PIA-Walt Whitman  "I AM THE POET OF THE BODY AND I AM THE POET OF THE SOUL,. I AM THE POET ... AS A BOY, WHITMAN COULD VISIT THE PORT IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. ... ALL THIS BECAME THE SUBJECT OF THE POEMS HE WROTE LATER. ... SOME OF THESE IDEAS WERE FROM NINETEENTH CENTURY SPIRITUAL
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Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia  Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Boston, she studied ... While living in Winthrop, eight-year-old Plath published her first poem in the ..... In 1971, the volumes Winter Trees and Crossing the Water were published in the ... Plath was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, posthumously.
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Emily Dickinson - Wikipedia  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830  May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she ... is now almost universally considered to be one of the most significant of all ...... Jump up ^ McNeil (1986), 35.
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Gertrude Stein - Wikipedia  Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874  July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the ... Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde.
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Edgar Lee Masters - The Pennsylvania Center for the Book  Abstract: The famous American poet Edgar Lee Masters was born on August ... As with A Book of Verses, all of his early work was ignored until 1915. ... wrote the epitaphs for over 200 members of a small, Midwestern town called Spoon River.
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Lewis Carroll - Poet | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Renowned Victorian author Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. The son of a clergyman,...
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First Fig - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, ... At the request of Vassar's drama department, she also wrote her first verse play, The ... My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh,...
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Petrarch - Poet | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  ... was born at dawn on July 20, 1304, in the city of Arezzo, in central Italy, just south of Florence. ... In 1327, in Avignon, Petrarch allegedly encountered Laura de Noves, ... From 1327 to 1368, Petrarch wrote 366 poems as part of a sequence,...
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Petrarch - Poet | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Petrarch - Poet - Known in English as Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca was an Italian poet who is credited with the development and popularization of the Italian sonnet. ... His primary interest, however, was Latin literature and writing. ... April 8, 1341 (Easter Sunday), he travelled to Rome to accept the crown as poet laureate.
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Wallace Stevens is born - Oct 02, 1879 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1879, poet Wallace Stevens is born in Reading, Pennsylvania. ... poems that are still anthologized today, including Sunday Morning and The Emperor of Ice Cream. ... In the meantime, he prospered at work and became a vice president of the insurance company in 1934. ... 9 Famous Authors With Day Jobs.
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POEM TEACH THING - TextLab  He wrote this poem while in church and some could say that this poem was an ... I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew,...
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Richard Cory - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  On December 22, 1869, Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine ... Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
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Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson!(18301886) an American poet ...  Been there years ago, would definitely go back :) ..... Poet George, George Herbert S, Herbert Read, Herbert Born, 39 George, Herbert Poetry, Herbert Poems,...
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Paul Revere's Ride - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Paul Revere's Ride - Listen, my children, and you shall hear. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Mainethen still part of Massachusettson February 27, 1807, the second son in a family of eight children. ... With the country moving toward civil war, he wrote "Paul Revere's Ride," a call for courage in the...
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James Dickey, Two-Fisted Poet and the Author of 'Deliverance,' Is ...  Jan 21, 1997 ... ames Dickey, one of the nation's most distinguished modern poets and ... novel ''Deliverance,'' died on Sunday in Columbia, S.C. He was 73. ... His collection ''Buckdancer's Choice'' received the National Book Award for poetry in 1966. .... Spender as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress and held...
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The Whole Shootin' Match - Texas Monthly  Although the fragile, pretty Bonnie Parker had her good points, Clyde Barrow was a ... Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow grew up on the mean streets of West Dallas. She was a nice girl who wrote poetry and turned cartwheels. He was ..... to a cell in Kaufman, where she began writing her first poem, The Story of Suicide Sal.