EARLY 20TH CENTURY POETRY
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Hart Crane Voyages
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Hart Crane (1899-1932)
"... [A]s a poet, I may very possibly be more interested in the so-called illogical impingements of the connotations of words on the consciousne...
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5 Poems by Theodore Roethke
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Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
"I think of myself as a poet of love, a poet of praise, and I wish to be read aloud." [1]
Theodore Roethke was born May 25, 1908 in Sagin...
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Guillaume Apollinaire Selections from Alcools
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Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
"The poet is he who discovers new joys, even if they are hard to bear. One can be a poet in any field; it is enough that one be adv...
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5 poems by Karl Shapiro
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Karl Shapiro (November 10, 1913- May 14, 2000)
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5 Poems by Osip Mandelstam
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Osip Mandelstam (1891- 1938)
Osip Mandelstam was born in Warsaw January 15, 1891. His father was a leather merchant. His mother taught piano. Not long after Osip's bir...
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5 Poems by Léonie Adams
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Léonie Adams (1899- 1988)
"My work has been sometimes described as 'metaphysical' and sometimes as 'romantic.' It is perhaps some sort of fusion. Its images are largel...
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Federico Garcia Lorca 5 Poems from Poet in New York
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Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) From Poet in New York
In his prefatory remarks before an audience assembled for a reading of Poet in New York in Buenos Aires in 1933, ...
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5 Poems by Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Langston Hughes' grand uncle, John Mercer Langston, was the first black congressman elected from Virginia in 1888. [1] Born James Mercer L...
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5 Poems by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 1886- 1961
"We must be 'in love' before we can understand the mysteries of vision." -H.D. (1)
H. D. thought of her work as a "matrix." A wom...
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5 Poems by Robert Frost
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Robert Frost ( 1874-1963)
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world." - epitaph on Robert Frost's grave.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco March 26, 1874. After ...
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