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  2. Luis Omar Salinas - Wikipedia

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    Salinas is regarded as "one of the founding fathers of Chicano poetry in America." [6] While a student at California State University Fresno Salinas published his first book, Crazy Gypsy, which sold well and earned him a reputation as both "a Chicano poet and as one of the leaders of the 'Fresno School' of poets, which included Gary Soto, Ernesto Trejo, Leonard Adame and others."

  3. List of poets - Wikipedia

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    James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk; W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate; Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer; Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet

  4. Invictus - Wikipedia

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    "Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses , in the section titled "Life and Death (Echoes)".

  5. Excelsior (Longfellow) - Wikipedia

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    The poem is the base for the motto of Wynberg Allen School in Mussorie, India. It is also the name and motto for the Brampton, Ontario, Canada box lacrosse teams. In 1871 Mr. George Lee, a Brampton High School teacher introduced lacrosse to the town. He proposed the name "Excelsior", which he took from Longfellow's poem.

  6. After Blenheim - Wikipedia

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    "After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), with the questions of two small children about a skull one of them has found. Their grandfather, an old man, tells them of burned homes, civilian casualties, and rotting corpses ...

  7. Seamus Heaney - Wikipedia

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    Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.

  8. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    Twentieth-century American poet Daniel Hoffman suggested that the poem's structure and meter is so formulaic that it is artificial, though its mesmeric quality overrides that. [ 27 ] Poe based the structure of "The Raven" on the complicated rhyme and rhythm of Elizabeth Barrett 's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship". [ 15 ]

  9. Sarah Kay (poet) - Wikipedia

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    The Type" was published in 2016 and is an illustrated version of her poem by the same name (with drawings by Sophia Janowitz as in her book "B") . [20] Kay is also a resident poet for The Paris Review where she contributes in a weekly poetry column titled “Poetry Rx.” [ 21 ] On March 13, 2018, All Our Wild Wonder , a vibrant tribute to ...

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