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Also Known As Egeria • Sarah Helen Power • Helen
Born January 19, 1803 • Providence • Rhode Island
Died June 27, 1878 (aged 75) • Providence • Rhode Island
Notable Works “Hours of Life, and Other Poems”

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Maggie Nelson
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James Russell Lowell
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Robert Penn Warren
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John Jay Chapman.
John Jay Chapman
American writer
Mark Van Doren.
Mark Van Doren
American writer
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
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John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic
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Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
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John Gardner
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
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J.V. Cunningham
American poet and critic
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos”
Walt Whitman
American poet
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Jack Kerouac
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Tillie Olsen
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Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
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