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Will Allen Dromgoole (October 26, 1860 – September 1, 1934) was an author and poet born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She wrote over 7,501 poems; 5,000 essays; and published thirteen books. She was renowned beyond the South; her poem "The Bridge Builder" was often reprinted. It remains quite popular.
Harriet Bates (1856–1886), wrote under the name Eleanor Putnam; Joseph Bathanti (born 1953) Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959) Isaac Rieman Baxley (1850–1920) Charles Baxter (born 1947) Abel Beach (1829–1899) Ray Young Bear (born 1950) Anthony Bearden (1913–1966) Paul Beatty (born 1962) Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (c. 1913–1995) George ...
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.
The Bridge of Sighs" is particularly well-known because of its novel meter, complex three syllable rhymes, varied rhyming scheme and pathetic subject matter. The poem describes the woman as having been immersed in the grimy water, but having been washed so that whatever sins she may have committed are obliterated by the pathos of her death.
Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), US poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012; Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner; Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish poet, critic and translator; Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenary; Kay Boyle (1902–1992), US writer, educator and ...
Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity.
First edition (publ. Black Sun Press) The Bridge, first published in 1930 by the Black Sun Press, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at a long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the "modernist epic."
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.