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  2. List of poets - Wikipedia

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    C. J. Stevens (1927–2021), US writer of poetry, fiction and biography; Wallace Stevens (1880–1955), US modernist poet; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer; Margo Taft Stever, US poet; Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904), US classical scholar and poet; James Still (1906–2001), US poet, novelist and ...

  3. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    "Lines on Joe Locke" was a short, two stanza poem written to make fun of a commanding officer during Poe's time at West Point. Poe was known for his funny verses on staff and faculty at the academy. Lieutenant Locke was either generally not well-liked, or Poe had a more personal vendetta with him.

  4. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now - Wikipedia

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    It is probably Housman's best-known poem, [1] [2] and one of the most anthologized of English lyrics. [3] Its opening line has become a part of the language, "inextricably lodged in the public mind and vocabulary". [4] In a 1995 poll it was chosen as one of the British people's 100 favourite poems. It has been set to music over 60 times.

  5. Lists of poems - Wikipedia

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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

  6. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people

  7. The Best American Poetry - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 2024 book of poetry of the English philologist, poet, and author J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Tolkien scholars, wife and husband Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Its three volumes contain some 900 versions of 195 poems, among them around 70 previously unpublished.

  9. List of English-language poets - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...