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Robert Frost

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1874-1963
American Poet
Famous for realistic depiction of rural life, especially in New England Area
Won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry
“The Road Not Taken”
“Fire and Ice”
“Birches”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
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William Shakespeare

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1564-1616
Grew up in StratfordUponAvon
Known for dramas and tragedies
Lyric poet and sonneteer 
Wrote 154 sonnets
Favorite of the monarch
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Emily Dickinson

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Influenced by Shakespeare and the Bible
1830-1886
American Poet
Wrote “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”
Unique style; random dashes and capitalization 
Reclusive life
Many poems published after she died
Died of kidney disease at age 55
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Langston Hughes

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1902-1967
Born in Joplin
“Jazz Age”
Harlem Renaissance

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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1772-1834
English romantic poet
“Rhyme or the ancient mariner”
“kubla Khan”
Lyrical ballads by him and Wordsworth started romantic age
Addicted to opium
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Maya Angelou

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American Poet and civil rights activist 
“I know why the caged bird sings”
Pulitzer Prize, national medal of arts, president medal of freedom
1928-2014
Born in St Louis
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E.E. Cummings

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American Poet
“If” “and” “because” as nouns
Unconventional - no rhyme scheme or pattern
Almost wrote 3000 poems

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Billy Collins

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American Poet
Poet Laurreate from 2001 to 2003
Witty

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Petrarch

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Created Italian sonnet (octave and a sestet)