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Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast"
Elizabeth Bishop, (born Feb. 8, 1911, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 6, 1979, Boston, Mass.), American poet known for her polished, witty, descript…
5 years, 10 months ago
Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar"
Wallace Stevens, (born Oct. 2, 1879, Reading, Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 2, 1955, Hartford, Conn.), American poet whose work explores the interaction of rea…
5 years, 11 months ago
Alice Cary's "Autumn"
Alice Cary (b. April 26, 1820, Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—d. February 12, 1871, New York, New York) and Phoebe Cary (b. September 4, …
5 years, 11 months ago
Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh also spelled Ralegh, (born 1554?, Hayes Barton, near Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England—died October 29, 1618, London), E…
5 years, 11 months ago
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Christopher Marlowe, (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London), Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s mo…
5 years, 11 months ago
Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"
Gwendolyn Brooks, in full Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, (born June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kan., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 2000, Chicago, Ill.), American poet whose w…
5 years, 11 months ago
Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”
Langston Hughes, in full James Mercer Langston Hughes, (born February 1, 1902?, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York, New York), Americ…
5 years, 11 months ago
Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"
Donald Hall, in full Donald Andrew Hall, Jr., (born September 20, 1928, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.—died June 23, 2018, Wilmot, New Hampshire), Amer…
5 years, 11 months ago
T.S. Eliot's "La Figlia che Piange"
T.S. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England), American-Englis…
5 years, 11 months ago
Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"
Yvor Winters, (born Oct. 17, 1900, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1968, Palo Alto, Calif.), was an American poet, critic, and teacher who held tha…
5 years, 11 months ago