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Born June 13, 1894 • Illinois
Died December 10, 1972 (aged 78)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1940)
Notable Works novel • “Jonathan Gentry”
Subjects Of Study poetry • John Dryden

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Maggie Nelson
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Harriet Monroe
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Louise Glück
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Wallace Stevens
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Anne Sexton
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Conrad Aiken
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Philip Levine
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