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Born	October 24, 1923 • England
Died	December 20, 1997 (aged 74) • Seattle • Washington
Movement / Style	Black Mountain poets

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Charles Olson

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T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Walt Whitman

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Henry David Thoreau

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Ezra Pound

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Jack Kerouac

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Tillie Olsen

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Theodore Dreiser

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Alice Walker

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W. H. Auden

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N. Scott Momaday

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Gordon Parks

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Maria Stewart

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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James Russell Lowell

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Edmund Wilson

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Ishmael Reed

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Paul Auster

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Ameen Rihani

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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