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  2. Alysoun - Wikipedia

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    The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.

  3. Sidney Lanier - Wikipedia

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    Sidney Clopton Lanier [1] (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, [2] worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer.

  4. Edwin Markham - Wikipedia

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    Markham then attended San Jose Normal School (now San Jose State University) graduating in 1872, and wrote the poem "The Man with the Hoe". [3] The house in which he wrote the poem was preserved and moved to the city's History Park, and now serves as a poetry center. He went by "Charles" until about 1895, when he was about 43, when he started ...

  5. Poems of family, abuse, journeys and love speak to ... - AOL

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    Byas’ poetry collection, “I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times” (Soft Skull, $16.95) — winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award — borrowed some scaffolding from the 1978 musical “The ...

  6. 5 Editor-Approved Books a Middle Schooler Will Love

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    5 Editor-Approved Books a Middle Schooler Will Love. Loretta Lopez. September 5, 2024 at 11:53 AM. ... Middle school is a notoriously awkward and challenging time in a girl’s life. As she stands ...

  7. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

  8. When the Nightingale Sings - Wikipedia

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    When The Nightingale Sings is a Middle English poem, author unknown, recorded in the British Library's Harley 2253 manuscript, verse 25. It is a love poem, extolling the beauty and lost love of an unknown maiden.

  9. Joaquin Miller - Wikipedia

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    Besides adopting the pen name "Joaquin", he later changed his middle name from Hiner to Heine to evoke the German poet Heinrich Heine. [ 7 ] While Miller was a young boy, probably between 1850 and 1852, [ 8 ] his family moved to Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley , establishing a farm in what would become Lane County .