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  2. Joplin-born Langston Hughes is a Missouri treasure. These 7 ...

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    Here are just three books that will suitably introduce Hughes to young poetry lovers: "The Dream Keeper and Other Poems" not only collects poems Hughes specifically pointed toward younger souls ...

  3. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Harry Burleigh set the poem "Lovely, dark, and lonely one" from the 1932 collection The Dream Keeper and Other Poems [99] to music in 1935, [100] his last art song. Italian composer Mira Sulpizi set Hughes's text to music in her 1968 song "Lyrics". [101] Hughes's life has been portrayed in film and stage productions since the late 20th century.

  4. The Dream, and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    The first poem, which is also entitled ‘The Dream’ is 64 pages long, with themes of death, romance, regret, grief, and the natural world. The protagonist, a nameless speaker described as the Hermit narrates his past romance through flashbacks to his long-lost friend, describing the woman he fell in love with in the past, and how her father ...

  5. Helen Sewell - Wikipedia

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    Helen Sewell (June 27, 1896 – February 24, 1957) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.She won a Caldecott Medal Honor as illustrator of The Thanksgiving Story [1] by Alice Dalgliesh and she illustrated several novels that were runners-up for the Newbery Medal.

  6. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    While he mostly focused on poetry for adults, Hughes wrote a book of poems called The Dream Keeper specifically for children. [1] Geisel at work on a drawing of the Grinch for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in 1957. Children's poetry in the mid-20th century was dominated by Theodor Geisel, otherwise known as Doctor Seuss. Dr.

  7. Effie Louise Power - Wikipedia

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    In a letter to Power on December 31, 1931, Hughes thanked her "for the splendid little introduction" [8] she wrote for his book of poems, The Dream Keeper. In 1932, Ella McGregor of the American Library Association 's Committee on Library Work with Children, asked Power for the name of someone who would might be interested in writing an article ...

  8. New York tax preparer 'the Magician' pleads guilty to filing ...

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    Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that a New York tax preparer known as 'the Magician" pled guilty to filing thousands of false tax returns.

  9. The Dream (Dafydd ap Gwilym poem) - Wikipedia

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    The dream of the beloved was a motif used in another of Dafydd's poems, "The Clock". [9] It was famously the basis of Le Roman de la Rose , but is older than that. Such a dream, together with an interpretation by an old crone, appears in Walther von der Vogelweide 's Dô der sumer komen was , and as far back as Ovid 's Amores . [ 10 ]