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  2. Peter Blue Cloud - Wikipedia

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    He was a lifelong avid reader and began writing poems as a teenager. At an early age, Blue Cloud was influenced by European and American traditions. His grandfather was a school teacher at Kahnawake, exposed to the art of storytelling through the plays of William Shakespeare and the tales of Haudenosaunee.

  3. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    “The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...

  4. Norman Nicholson - Wikipedia

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    Aspects of Nicholson include his social awareness as a champion of the working class and the environment. As a young man he worked as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association . He was intensely interested in geology and botany and his poem " Windscale " about the catastrophic nuclear accident in 1957 has become something of an ...

  5. Edgar A. Guest - Wikipedia

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    After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.

  6. Earth's Answer - Wikipedia

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    Earth's Answer is a poem by William Blake within his larger collection called Songs of Innocence and of Experience (published 1794). [2] It is the response to the previous poem in The Songs of Experience-- Introduction (Blake, 1794). In the Introduction, the bard asks the Earth to wake up and claim ownership. In this poem, the feminine Earth ...

  7. List of Emily Dickinson poems - Wikipedia

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    This does not account for the handful of poems published during Emily Dickinson's lifetime, nor poems which first appeared within published letters. 1stS.P: Section and Poem number (both converted to Arabic numerals, and separated by a period) of the poem in its 1st publication as noted above. Poems in the volumes of 1929 and 1935 are not ...

  8. Nine Tomorrows - Wikipedia

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    Nine Tomorrows is a collection of nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov.The pieces were all originally published in magazines between 1956 and 1958, with the exception of the closing poem, "Rejection Slips", which was original to the collection.

  9. Thomas Miller (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Miller (31 August 1807 – 24 October 1874) was an English poet and novelist who explored rural subjects. He was one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the 19th century and produced in all over 45 volumes, [1] including some "penny dreadfuls" on urban crime.