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Books on: major american poets

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The Mentor Book of Major American Poets: From Edward Taylor and Walt Whitman to Hart Crane and W. H. Auden

Book by Oscar Williams, Edwin Honig; New American Library, 1962

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American Poetry--Collections, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...inheritance and aims of the major American poets which have made their...antagonist stand the major poets, and they are harder...common. A major poet contributes to the...Though the major poet often fulfills them...among more ambitious poets, in the longer poem...
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Major American Poets

Book by Harry Hayden Clark; American book company, 1936

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American Poetry--19th Cent, American Prose Literature, Poetics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...completely understand American poetry unless one reads...work of a relatively few major figures who are representative...wherever it may lead. Our poets were closely interested...poems which express each poets political, religious...logical articulation of a poets thought but they illustrate...the manner in which the poet inspired or was inspired...
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Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2002

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American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Poets, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...American Poetry, Asian American Women Poets, and Internment...who has been called poet laureate of Asian America and Japanese Americas poet, and whose Before the...collection by an Asian American published by a major press, has seen no books...activities from Asian American poets for example, the fruitful...
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-To-Z Guide

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2003

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American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Male Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Gay Men's Writings, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Gay Men--United States--Biography--Dictionaries, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Leaves of Grass , the poet encounters the shade of the good gray poet in a supermarket and...poem America, where the poet directly address his...make a contribution to American history and culture...small group of American poets who have composed a major elegy. The poem remains...
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American Poets and Their Theology

Book by Augustus Hopkins Strong; Griffith and Rowland Press, 1916

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American Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, Poetry, Poets, American, Religion In Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...soldier, but he gave his age as twenty-two. His conduct in the service was so creditable that he was promoted to be sergeant-major. His officers recognized his superior education and refinement, and after nearly two years they used their influence to secure...

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Journal Articles on: major american poets

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Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: An Anthology

Journal article by Jennifer Putzi; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 18, 2001

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A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1920 (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews, Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: An Anthology (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: An Anthology...Century American Women Poets: An Anthology. Edited...Century American Women Poets and A Sweet, Separate...Century American Women Poets, "I had come to my field assuming that major figures would be the...elsewhere, not in the poet but in the poem" (xl...
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Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic

Journal article by Douglas Steward; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

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African American gays--Literature, African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Race identity, Gay and lesbian studies--Social aspects, Saint, Assotto--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...homogeneity that characterize American nationalism itself...requirement: the gay poets opposed needs to be discreet...poetry, since these poets are (1) racially reduced...After mentioning several poets whose work is displayed...lesbian" section of major bookstores than in the...discourse" (67). When a poet "cites" a stereotype...
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"Our Only Truly National Poets": Blackface Minstrelsy and Cultural Nationalism

Journal article by Robert C. Nowatzki; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 20, 2006

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American poetry--Analysis, Nationalism--Analysis, Poets--Evaluation, Poets--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Only Truly National Poets": Blackface Minstrelsy...Who Are Our National Poets?", which sarcastically celebrates American literary nationalism...that a truly American poet must reject European...America has no National Poets? (341)
Americans could stoop so low...means that a "negro" poet (i.e., a white American writing minstrel songs...
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Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights

Journal article by Joanne V. Gabbin; MELUS, Vol. 32, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The African American Bardic Poet from...American Bardic Poet from Slavery to...tradition in which poets combine the aesthetic...recognizes that these poets gesture towards...Leonards anchor poet in Fettered Genius...central to African American literary culture...through Tolsons major works to show...most important poets, and revisits...
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The Response of American Poets to 9/11: a Provisional Report

Journal article by Laurence Goldstein; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 48, 2009

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Military history, Poetry, Poets

Collections: History, Entire Library

...fact of her eternal absence, poets and their readers may crave...violent assault? How have poets, so far, chosen to think...accounts wrenched the psyche of Americans, dominating conversation...almost none from a significant poet. Articles of War: A Collection...place as the result of an American strategy during the 1930s...seemed to most of the leading poets in 1941 astonishing yet too...

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Magazine Articles on: major american poets

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A MAJOR MINOR POET: Billy Collins Isn't Just Funny

Magazine article by Richard Alleva; Commonweal, Vol. 129, January 11, 2002

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Collins, Billy--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets laureate--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...poet who would reject major status if it were thrust...greatness. Nowadays, an American citizen may feel washed...machine? Must not a major American poet--like...crisis, for a minor poet who does nothing but...an Anselm Kiefer. The major artists reach further...
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Poet Richard Wilbur's a Translator's Tale: 50-Plus-Year Relationship with Moliere Is One of the Theatre's Great Love Affairs

Magazine article by Dana Gioia; American Theatre, Vol. 26, April 2009

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Poets, Wilbur, Richard

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Poet Richard Wilburs a Translators...Affairs. by Dana Gioia NO MAJOR AMERICAN POET TODAY HAS HAD a longer or...in 1955 at the legendary Poets Theatre in Cambridge, Mass...from the first a natural poet with a distinctive and powerful...
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Robinson Jeffers: Peace Poet

Magazine article by Justin Raimondo; American Conservative, Vol. 6, December 17, 2007

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Content analysis, Jeffers, Robinson, Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets, Politics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Jeffers: Peace Poet by Justin Raimondo...PROFILE A CELEBRATED American bard, hailed...the "California poets," delivers the...publisher-a major source of much...discredit him." The poets work is subjected...pronounced by the poet in this volume...missing a beat, the poet peers into an...craggy-faced poets perspective reflected...
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Immortality Gained: John Milton Was Not Only a Great Poet, but Also a Great Defender of Liberty

Magazine article by Jay Parini; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Autumn 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot (Biography)--Book reviews

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...Liberty. by Jay Parini Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot...many things at once: a poet rivaled only by Chaucer...For different reasons, poets have also struggled to...biography, Milton: Poet, Pamphleter and Patriot...abroad. He was also a major advocate for political...Founding Fathers of the American Revolution well understood...
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The Lost Village: A Palestinian Poet Remembers the People and Places He Has Lived Without

Magazine article by Nathalie Handal; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Summer 2009

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Books--Book reviews, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century (Biography)--Book reviews

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...BEARS NO RELATION TO HAPPINESS A Poets Life in the Palestinian Century...biography of acclaimed Palestinian poet and writer Taha Muhammad Ali...His shop became a place where poets and intellectuals as well as...personal and poignant, and a major theme in his work is the contemplation...11th-century North African poet Ibn Rashiq: "Poetry is something...

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Newspaper Articles on: major american poets

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Alice in LA-LA LAND; She's a Blonde Bombshell with an Oxford Degree, a Poet Boyfriend and Roles in Two Major Hollywood Films. Alice Eve Talks to Benji Wilson about Clothes, Curves - and Sharing the Screen with Her Real-Life Parents Photographs KATE TURNING

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 4, 2010

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Eve, Alice, Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Bombshell with an Oxford Degree, a Poet Boyfriend and Roles in Two Major Hollywood Films. Alice Eve Talks...ORiordan, a 27-year-old poet whom she first met at Oxford...comes armed with a faultless American accent. Shes had an unfair advantage...
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Alice in LA-LA LAND; COVERSTORY; She's a Blonde Bombshell with an Oxford Degree, a Poet Boyfriend and Roles in Two Major Hollywood Films. Alice Eve Talks to B Enji Wilson about Clothes, Curves - and Sharing the Screen with Her Real-Life Parents

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 3, 2010

Subjects:

Eve, Alice, Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Bombshell with an Oxford Degree, a Poet Boyfriend and Roles in Two Major Hollywood Films. Alice Eve Talks...comes armed with a faultless American accent. Shes had an unfair advantage...ORiordan, a 27-year-old poet whom she first met at university...
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Ex-President Will Welcome Visitors to Dylan Thomas' Home; JIMMY CARTER PRESENTED WITH BUST OF HIS FAVOURITE POET

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 2, 2011

Subjects:

Carter, Jimmy (American president), Ex-presidents, Poets, Thomas, Dylan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PRESENTED WITH BUST OF HIS FAVOURITE POET. Byline: ROBIN TURNER FORMER...new audio visual tour for the poets birthplace at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive...of the hard-drinking Welsh poet. Carter played a big part in...plaque to Thomas being erected in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey...2014 when Swansea is to host a major celebration for Thomas fans...
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BARD in the USA; (1) Father of the U.S.: President George Washington (2) Ploughman Poet: Did the Fame of Robert Burns Spread Early to the Newborn USA?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 17, 2009

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Poets, Washington, George (American president)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Washington (2) Ploughman Poet: Did the Fame of Robert...to explain. True, Americans traditionally admire...surrounded by Scots and Scots Americans. His first career break...official portrait. Major John Forbes, from Dunfermline...the U.S., while Major Andrew Buchanan, who...wrote a poem on the American War, and an ode for...
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Culture: A Poet in Tangled Battle Lines of Iraq; Plenty of Poets Described the Horrors of the First World War, but in Modern Combat Zones They Are a Rare Beast. David Whetstone Talks to American Poet Brian Turner, Who Served in Iraq

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 17, 2008

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United States. Army

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Culture: A Poet in Tangled Battle...Iraq; Plenty of Poets Described the Horrors...Whetstone Talks to American Poet Brian Turner, Who...Brian Turner nine major literary awards...award-winning war poets who have actually...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: major american poets

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...coveted by every aspiring American writer and was first...attention by presenting American folk stories, and James...himself the leading poet of America with his...romantic movement were such poets as Joseph Rodman Drake...who won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing...these were strongly American, and transcendentalists...Boston "Brahmin," poet, and critic, and John...
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Mythology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...time of Aeschylus and has been used by some of the major English poets (e.g., Milton, Shelley, Keats). Some great...Recurrent Themes Studies of the myths of North and South American natives, Australian aborigines, the peoples of S...
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Icelandic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Icelandic-Canadian poet Stephan G. Stephansson...anticlerical satirist and lyric poet Thorsteinn Erlingsson...a leading spirit the poet, scholar, and critic...Guethmundsson and the lyric poets Davieth Stefansson and...establishment of British and American bases in Iceland during...Sigfursson, won acclaim. Major writers of the late 20th...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...S. Eliot was born an American, and Conrad was Polish...conventional romanticism of such poets as John Masefield , Alfred...Lawrence . The finest poet of the period was Yeats...authors were the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and the...outstanding contemporary poets include Hugh MacDiarmid...Seamus Heaney , an Irish poet who is hailed for his...little in the Thatcher and Major eras as in the previous...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...England the great Romantic poets did not produce important...theater; indeed, the major philosophical concern...plays of Edward Albee (American). The pessimism and...trilogy; and in such American plays as Jason Millers...imitators), explored American culture with a kind...by and about African Americans emerged as a significant...

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