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Angelou, Maya: b1928
"I love to write because...it offers me the enigma of my life." Maya Angelou's prose depicts her personal history, her pride as a black woman and...
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Betjeman, John: 1906 - 1984
Poet Laureate in 1972 John Betjeman's popular verse celebrated architecture, but concentrated mainly on middle-class social life in the metropolitan...
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Cummings, E(dward) E(stlin): 1894 - 1962
A widely popular poet, Cummings used eccentric typography and phrasing in his work "to develop new means of ...
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Pound, Ezra: 1885 - 1972
A crucially important figure in the development of 20th-century poetry and criticism, Ezra Pound is also famous for his fascist inclinations leading...
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Sassoon, Siegfried: 1886 - 1967
Nicknamed "Mad Jack" for his reckless courage during World War I, Siegfried Sassoon became opposed to the war and started writing antiwar poetry in...
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Seth, Vikram: b1952
Author of the epic best-selling novel of postcolonial India, A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth was also acclaimed for the virtuoso novel in verse, The...
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Smith, Stevie: 1902 - 1971
Described as one of the most original poetic voices to emerge from the thirties, Stevie Smith's eccentric, mischievous, often disturbing poems...
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Walcott, Derek: b1930
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Derek Walcott applies an inventive use of language in his plays and poems about the West Indian...
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