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  2. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.

  3. The Leavers - Wikipedia

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    Year Award Category Result Ref. 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — Won [9] 2017 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: Adult Fiction Won [10] Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award: Fiction Shortlisted [11] National Book Award: Fiction: Shortlisted [12] 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize — Longlisted [13]

  4. The Slaughter Yard - Wikipedia

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    The story was set there about 20 years later. The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851). It was the first Argentine work of prose fiction. It is one of the most studied texts in Latin American literature.

  5. Year 11 - Wikipedia

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    In New Zealand, Year 11 is the eleventh full year of compulsory education (5-year-olds usually start their first year in Year 0 until the new calendar year). Students entering Year Eleven are usually aged fifteen between 14.5 and 16, [1] but there is no minimum age. Year 11 pupils are educated in Secondary schools or in Area schools. [2]

  6. Leaves of Grass - Wikipedia

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    Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman.Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing, rewriting, and expanding Leaves of Grass [1] until his death in 1892.

  7. Life Studies - Wikipedia

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    Notably, at a 1963 poetry reading at the Guggenheim Museum, Lowell introduced his reading of "Beyond the Alps" by stating that, "[the poem was] a declaration of my faith or lack of faith." [ 4 ] Part II contains only one piece which is titled "91 Revere Street" and is the first (and only) significant passage of prose to appear in one of Lowell ...

  8. Lydia Sigourney - Wikipedia

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    The Faded Hope (1852) in memory of her only son, who died when he was nineteen years old; Past Meridian (1854) The Daily Counsellor (1858), poems; Gleanings (1860), selections from her verse; The Man of Uz, and Other Poems (1862) Letters of Life (1866), giving an account of her career

  9. Bayard Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. [2] His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great ...