Poets

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  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's ...

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  Pros: He wrote to the rhythm of the human heart.
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  Ezra Pound

  Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first ...

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  E. E. Cummings

  E. E. Cummings's (1894-1962) experimentation with form and language places him among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets. His style eludes specific association with any one modern line. He ...

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  Pros: u se: of whateverittakes languagewise. to reveal the commonplace: (as he found it)
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  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on ...

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  Pros: rhythm and powerful words Cons: some difficult allusions
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  T. S. Eliot

  Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Eliot has been one of the most daring innovators of twentieth-century poetry. Never ...

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  Pros: Erudite, profound, sometimes even scary.
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  Fernando Pessoa

  Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was also a literary critic and translator. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western ...

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  Pros: Philosophical yet beautiful writing. The poet of saudade. Cons: Sometimes too depressing
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  Nicole Blackman

  Nicole Blackman (November 30, 1971) is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, and vocalist.

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  Pros: Dark, disturbing, and full of calamity. Most of her best poems have been recorded with audio ... Cons: She is an amazing talent, but her stories are very ...
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  William Blake

  William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a poet, artist, mystic and visionary. He is best-known for Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), and recognized as one of the ...

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  Pros: Some really short, easily digestible poems. Cons: Some long, epic, less digestible poems.
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  Robert Frost

  Robert (Lee) Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet, one of the finest of rural New England's 20th century pastoral poets. Frost published his first books in Great Britain in ...

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  Pros: Evocative imagery illuminating human nature Cons: Bucolic
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  Langston Hughes

  Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright, who became one of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the United States. Influenced by the Bible, W. E ...

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  Pros: He can grab you by the throat; try "A Dream Deferred".

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