Kenneth Rexroth: Quick Facts

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Born	December 22, 1905 • South Bend • Indiana
Died	June 6, 1982 (aged 76) • Santa Barbara • California
Notable Works	“American Poetry in the Twentieth Century” • “Assays” • “Bird in the Bush” • “In What Hour” • “The Alternative Society” • “With Eye and Ear”
Movement / Style	Beat movement

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Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

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H.D.

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Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

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Paul Bowles

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Richard Howard

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American poet Carolyn Forché, 1989

Carolyn Forché

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Donald Justice

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Horace Gregory

American poet and critic

Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.

Jack Kerouac

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

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Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

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Robert Lowell, c. 1960

Robert Lowell

American poet

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster

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Thomas Merton, 1959

Thomas Merton

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Robert Bly

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Jonathan Franzen

American author

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe

American poet

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

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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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry