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The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
John Lawrence Ashbery[1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [2] Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." [3] Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at ...
0-06-025673-7. OCLC. 7574216. A Light in the Attic is a book of poems by American poet, writer, and musician Shel Silverstein. The book consists of 135 poems accompanied by illustrations also created by Silverstein. [1] It was first published by Harper & Row Junior Books in 1981 and was a bestseller for months after its publication, [2] but it ...
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, [1] the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. [2]
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [1] She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. [2][3] Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
Ted Kooser. Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939) [1] is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. [2] Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selected from the Great Plains, [3] and is known for his conversational style of ...
Billy Collins. William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and ...