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Born October 20, 1940 (age 86) • Long Branch • New Jersey
Notable Works “An Explanation of America” • “At the Foundling Hospital” • “Gulf Music” • “Jersey Rain” • “Landor’s Poetry” • “The Life of David” • “Sadness and Happiness” • “The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems” • “The Want Bone”
Subjects Of Study poetry

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Eugenio Montale
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Martin Opitz
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Ezra Pound
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Richmond Lattimore
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Samuel Johnson
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Alexander Pope
English author
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic

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