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Ernest Lawrence Thayer (/ ˈ θ eɪ ər /; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, [1] and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of ...
Alex Caldiero (born 1949); James Edwin Campbell (1867–1896); Mary Baine Campbell; Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980); Francesca Anna Canfield (1803–1833); Skipwith Cannell (1887–1957)
Julia Harris May (April 27, 1833 – May 6, 1912) was an American poet, teacher, and school founder of the long nineteenth century. She spent several years teaching in the south. From 1868, she was the head of a private school in Strong, Maine. Her poems appeared extensively in the leading religious and literary journals of the United States. [1]
and "Lilacs" Whitman's two most famous poems. [69] The scholar William Pannapacker called "My Captain" the most popular poem ever written on Lincoln. [70] Drum-Taps and Sequel received mixed reviews from critics following their publication. [71] Some poems were generally praised; particularly "My Captain!" and, to a lesser extent, "Lilacs". [72]
Title page of second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678. As England's contact with the Americas increased after the 1490s, English explorers sometimes included verse with their descriptions of the New World up through 1650, the year of Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse", which was written in America (most likely in Ipswich, Massachusetts or North Andover, Massachusetts) and ...
This was followed in 2013 by The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (2013), in which guest editor Robert Pinsky selected 100 poems from the series' history. A collection of Lehman's forewords was published together as a look at contemporary poetry called The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988–2014.
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List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell