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Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. [ 1 ]
The common version is part of the book called Collected Poems by Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. In 1997, the poem was ranked in a Columbia University Press survey as the 266th most anthologized poem in English.
Free Press Flashback explores the work of Robert Hayden, the celebrated poet who grew up in Detroit's Paradise Valley.
The American poet Robert Hayden started researching with the intent of writing his poem in the late 1930s [2] and started to write "Middle Passage" in 1941 and sought to include it in The Black Spear, an "epic sequence" of poetry inspired by Stephen Vincent Benét's work John Brown’s Body.
At the age of 40, Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate (Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978, and Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985–86
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. Robert Hayden may also refer to: Robert Haydn, a fictional character in The Law of Ueki
Robert Fitzgerald: Spring Shade: Poems, 1931–1970: Robert Hayden: Words in the Mourning Time: John Hollander: The Night Mirror: Galway Kinnell: The Book of Nightmares: David Shapiro: A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel: Allen Tate: The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems: James Wright: Collected Poems † 1973 [29] A. R. Ammons: Collected Poems ...
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