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Also Known As Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
Born March 27, 1923 • Kingston • Jamaica
Died September 14, 2012 (aged 89) • Stony Brook • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “A Dream of Governors” • “At the End of the Open Road”
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Mark Van Doren.
Mark Van Doren
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Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
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Anne Sexton
American poet
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Philip Levine
American poet
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
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Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
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Theodore Roethke
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