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| 2417607895 | Anne Bradstreet | -moved to americans with other Puritans at 18 -8 Children -father and husband contributed to founding of Harvard -poetry = diary -addressed to husband and children -positive and hopeful tone -women and religion -plain style/classicism -Contemplations, To my Dear and Loving Husband | 0 | |
| 2417619496 | Richard Wilbur | -still alive -Pullitzer x2 - ends poems in crescendo -order and organization influenced by Robert Frost and WH Auden -childhood influences & WWII -Boy at the Window, A fable, The Writer | 1 | |
| 2417628996 | William Carlos Williams | -The red wheelbarrow -modernism and imagism -fresh and unique, everyday circumsances of everyday people -line breaks -National Book award and Pulitzer Prize | 2 | |
| 2417635639 | Elizabeth Bishop | -raised by maternal grandparents, elite school -perfectionist, therefore not many works -struggle, sense of belonging, human experiences of grief and longing -journeys, traveling -national book award and Pulitzer Prize "one art" | 3 | |
| 2417645941 | Geoffrey Chaucer | -father of english lit -1st to be buried in Poets Corner of WM Abbey -poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, diplomat, alchemist -The canterbury tales -satirist, close to modern english | 4 | |
| 2417659584 | John Donne | -married anne more, scandal with father -metaphysical poetry/conceit -Compass in Valediction: Forbidden Mourning -Satire, love, sermons, Dead be not proud, a hymn to god the fotehr | 5 | |
| 2417672376 | Robert Browing | influenced by Elizabeth Barretts poems, married her -Porphyria's lover -my last duchess -dramas, short lyrics, free verses, narratives, | 6 | |
| 2417685601 | Garrett Hongo | japanese american born in hawaii -professor of creative writing at university of oregon at eugene -influenced by jap/american experience -Yellow Light -Volcano: A memoir of Hawai'i | 7 | |
| 2417692461 | Robert Lowell | manic depression, married/divorced x3, heartbreak, -pulitzer x2 -rigorously formal --> Modern Style - invented congessional poetry -exteremly personal works - personal traumas -failing love life and manic depression -life studies, 91 Revere streete, skunk hour | 8 | |
| 2417703880 | Rita Dove | -beauty, political themes, civil rights, music and dance -Pullitzer for Thomas and beulah -on the bus with rosa parks | 9 | |
| 2417709043 | Derek Walcott | -modernism -selfaware realism -stepping beyond the boundaries of traditional poetry -morality, socio-economic, mythical, carribean birthplace -nobel prize -Omeros, The Illiad -- reflects homers journey and caribbean identy/beauty of the island | 10 | |
| 2417719609 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | -always feared over money, fear of mental illness -In memoriam stanza, mythological past, personal past -in memoriam, the lady of shaloti, ulysses | 11 | |
| 2417725816 | Marianne Moore | -baseball fan -National book award, pullitzer prize, bollingen prize, -muhammed ali admirer -"baseball and writing" | 12 | |
| 2417733641 | Cathy Song | Anedotes, imagery, free verse, narrative, family -korean/chinese descent, -Picture Bride, Youngest Daughter | 13 | |
| 2417740959 | Sylvia Plath | Attempted suicide, single mother with two children, married ted hughes, poor, -suicide by cooking gas -wrote about hardships,real life depression, honest and shocking struggles -"daddy" "metahors" Mirrors" | 14 | |
| 2417753659 | William Butler yates | -irish, dublin, active in irish nationalsim, protestant, irish folklore -symbolic -art and politics, romanticism to modernism transition "The lake isle of innisfree" "the second coming" | 15 | |
| 2417761725 | Gwendolyn Brooks | -lived in inner city chigago -1st black author to win Pulitzer prize for poetry -clipped lines, patterns and random rhyes, strong dialect - civil rights, inequality, female struggles, drug use, poverty - the bean eaters, we real cool | 16 | |
| 2417771406 | Seamus Heaney | irish poet, playright, translator -small irish farm -catholic in protestant world -professor at harvard/oxford -childhood memories, farm life, nature, family, irish commentary, death -nature imagery, sensous language, sexual metaphors, simplistic natural speech -"digging" | 17 | |
| 2417783000 | Joy arjo | -highly political feminist, musiciam and writer, in a band and plays ukelele and bass -university of new mexico -voice of the earth, landscape of time and tielessness, people who struggle/ to know themselves and to survive -native american myths, symbols, values, love of natural world "the woman who fell from the sky" "The last song" | 18 | |
| 2417791142 | Phillip Larkin | Warwickshire, england -wrote novels, enjoyed jaze, no-nonsense, hated limelight -female alter ego -"Whitsun Weddings" "Toads" "A study of reading habits" | 19 | |
| 2417796264 | Walt Whitman | -debated sexuality, humanism and optimism, transcendentalism and realism, fatehr of free verse, influenced by homer, dante, shakespeare and bible, invented words, "o captain my captain" "i hear america singing" "leaves of grass" | 20 | |
| 2417802968 | William Blake | -influenced by bible, claimed to have visions of God's head and Exekiel -influenced by gothic architechure -painter and a poet -biblicam themes, heaven and hell, sexuality, innocense and experience, religion and imagionation, "The Sick Rose" "the Cimney Sweeper" "The clod/the pebble" "The lamb" "To the muses" | 21 | |
| 2417812129 | William Wordsworth | -**"daffodils", "I wandered lonely as a cloud" -feeling, instinct, pleasure -power of the human mind, spendor of childhood, beneficial infleunce of nature | 22 | |
| 2417821095 | Andrew Marvell | -scathing political satire -metaphysical, love and religion, elaborateconceit, vibrant imagery, satire and religion, soul vs body, art vs politics -"To his coy mistress" | 23 | |
| 2417829406 | Alexander Pope | -translated the illiad -tuberculosis=very short -"hump backed toad" -satire and heroic couplets, ignorance and pointlessness of society -"essay on criticism" "rape of the lock" "essay on man" | 24 | |
| 2417841141 | John Keats | -fighter for friends -medicine -depression and sore throats -passionate letters -tuberculosis -romanticism -odes, unhappy with real world, escape, negative capability "ode to grecian urn, nightinggale" "on autumn" | 25 | |
| 2417852065 | HD (hilda doolittle) | -bisexual, freud -greek mythology -Helen in Egypt | 26 | |
| 2417856501 | Ben Jonson | English Playwrit/poet -comedy of humors and satire plays, lyric poetry -dramatist -second most important dramatist after shakespeare -wrote Shakespeares Eulogy -Silent women, the Alchemist -satire, humor, distate for world, delight in exposing follies and vices | 27 | |
| 2417863522 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | -opiates, friends with wordsworth -romantic movement, german idealistic thought, transcendentalism, unifying spirit/consciousness, guilt, weight of wisdom, friendship "the eolian harp" "rime of ancient mariner" "kubla khan" | 28 | |
| 2417874431 | Paul Lawrence Dunbar | sympathy "Caged bird" | 29 | |
| 2417881289 | Emily Dickinson | anxiety, depression, rarely left home, sole caregiver to sick mother -nature, religion, law, music, medicine, DASHES -"Hope is the thing with feathers" "because I could not stop for death" | 30 | |
| 2417886042 | Lucille Clifton | African american heritage, womens experience, female body "in the inner city" "good times" | 31 |
