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“Poems (1930)” – The First Published Collection by W.H. Auden

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“Poems (1930),” the first poetry collection by W.H. Auden, promised great things to come, and Auden did not disappoint.

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Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet for Poets and Poetry Readers

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Edwin Arlington Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his poetry. He’s a poet for both poets and poetry readers.

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Poet Matthew Hollis Writes a Biography of “The Waste Land”

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In “The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem,” poet Matthew Hollis tells the story of how T.S. Eliot’s poem came to be.

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Classic Biography: “Edgar Lee Masters” by Herbert Russell

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In his classic biography of Edgar Lee Masters, Herbert Russell tells the story of a writer defined by one single, enormously successful work.

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Forgotten Classics: “Cane” by Jean Toomer

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“Cane” by Jean Toomer is considered a modernist classic, compared favorably and critically to the works of William Faulkner.

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What Made 1922 a Literary Watershed Year?

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In 1922, everything changed in literature, as James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” brought modernism to fiction and poetry.

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“The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens” by Paul Mariani

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In “The Whole Harmonium,” biographer and poet Paul Mariani tells the story of Wallace Stevens, poet, philosopher, insurance executive, and family man.

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Poets and Poems: Hart Crane, “The Bridge” and Me

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Reading “The Bridge” by Hart Crane is an exploration into the love for the literature of Realism and Modernism – and the reasons for that love.

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Poets and Poems: Thomas Merton and “In the Dark Before Dawn”

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Thomas Merton continues to exert a significant pull on the imagination, the intellect, and the conscience.

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Poetry: The Teachers Who Teach Us

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The teachers we have in middle school and high school can have a profound influence on how we understand and appreciate poetry throughout our lives.

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Poet Focus: Marianne Moore

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For all of her modernist associations, Marianne Moore’s poetry didn’t exactly fit the category. There’s a richness, almost a lushness, in many of her poems that’s absent from the moderns. She ranged over history and literature — Rome and Greece, Britain and Ireland, and America — as well as music and the natural world.

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