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Born October 2, 1879 • Reading • Pennsylvania
Died August 2, 1955 (aged 75) • Hartford • Connecticut
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Pulitzer Prize • Bollingen Prize (1949)
Notable Works “Harmonium” • “Sea Surface Full of Clouds”

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Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
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.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
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Theodore Roethke
American poet
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
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Lisel Mueller
German-American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
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James Merrill
American poet
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
American poet
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Richard Wilbur
American poet

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