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Wace,
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Wade,
Sidney
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Sidney Wade (born 1951) is an American poet. She currently holds the position of Professor of creative writing at the University of Florida, where she has taught since 1993.. American poet and professor
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Wagoner,
David
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Wakoski,
Diane
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. American poet; associated with the deep image confessional and Beat poets
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Walcott,
Derek
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. Saint Lucian poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Waldman,
Anne
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Waldrop,
Rosmarie
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Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is coeditor and publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism.. German-American poet translator and publisher
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Waley,
Arthur
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Arthur David Waley CH, CBE (19 August 1889 – 27 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist.. English orientalist and sinologist; poet and translator
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Walker,
Alice
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An American author and feminist.. American author poet and activist
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Walker,
Annie Louisa
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Walker,
Margaret
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Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an African-American poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her best-known poems is For My People.. African American writer
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Waller,
Edmund
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Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.. English poet and politician
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Waller Proctor,
Bryan
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Walser,
Martin
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Martin Walser (born 24 March 1927 in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance) is a German writer. He became famous for describing the conflicts his anti-heroes have in his novels and stories. In 1998 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt.. German writer
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Wanek,
Connie
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. American poet
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Warn,
Emily
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Warren,
Mercy Otis
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Warren,
Robert Penn
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. American poet novelist and literary critic; one of the founders of New Criticism
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Warton,
Joseph
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Warton,
Thomas
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An English literary historian and critic, as well as a poet.. English literary historian critic and poet
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Waters,
Roger
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Watten,
Barrett
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Barrett Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets.. American poet editor and educator; associated with the Language poets
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Watts,
Isaac
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. English hymn writer theologian and logician
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Wayne,
David
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Webb,
Charles
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Webster,
John
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John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.. English Jacobean dramatist
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Wedderburn Cannan,
Mary
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Wee,
Rebecca
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Wei,
Wang
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A Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman.. Chinese priestess and poet
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Weiner,
Hannah
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Hannah Adelle Weiner (née Finegold) (4 November 1928 — 11 September 1997) was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.. American Language poet.
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Weir Mitchell,
S
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Welch,
Lew
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Weld Grimke,
Angelina
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Wendell Bontemps,
Arna
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Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 - June 4, 1973) was a well-known American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.. American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance
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Werfel,
Franz
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Franz Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet.. Austrian-Bohemian novelist playwright and poet
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Whalen,
Philip
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Philip Glenn Whalen (20 October 1923 – 26 June 2002) was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.. American poet Zen Buddhist and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance; close to the Beat generation
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Wharton,
Edith
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Wheatley,
Phillis
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The first African American female writer to be published in the United States.. first African American poet
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Wheelwright,
John
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White,
EB
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White,
James L
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White Lowell,
Maria
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Maria White Lowell (July 8, 1821 – October 27, 1853) was an American poet and abolitionist.. American poet and abolitionist
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Whitman,
Walt
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Widely considered to be one of America's best and most influential poets.. American poet essayist journalist and humanist
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Whitney,
Isabella
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Isabella Whitney (born late 1540s; fl. 1567–1573) is the earliest identified woman to have published secular poetry in the English language. She has been called "the first professional woman poet in England.". English poet
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Whittemore,
Reed
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Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (born September 11, 1919) is an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946, and in 1984.. American poet biographer critic literary journalist and college professor
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Whittier,
John Greenleaf
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An American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.. American poet
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Wicks,
Les
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Les Wicks (born 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of eight books of poetry.. Australian poet publisher and editor
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Widdemer,
Margaret
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Widström,
Ulrika
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Ulrika Carolina Widström, (24 November 1764, Stockholm - 19 February 1841), was a Swedish poet and translator.. Swedish poet and translator
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Wieners,
John
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John Joseph Wieners (6 January 1934 – 1 March 2002) was an American lyric poet.. American lyric poet
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Wigglesworth,
Michael
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Wilbur,
Richard
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. American poet and literary translator; US Poet Laureate 1987–88 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 & 1989
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Wilcox,
Ella Wheeler
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Wilde,
Jane
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Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896) (born Jane Francesca Elgee in Dublin) was an Irish poet under the pen name "Speranza" and supporter of the nationalist movement; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather. She married Sir William Wilde on 12 November 1851, and they had three children: William 'Willie' Charles Kingsbury Wilde (1852 – 1899), Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), and Isola Francesca Emily Wilde (1857–1867).. Irish poet and nationalist
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Wilde,
Oscar
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An Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason.. Irish writer playwright and poet
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Wilkinson,
John
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John Wilkinson (born 1953) is a contemporary English poet.. English poet
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Wilkinson,
Liam
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Willard,
Nancy
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Williams,
C K
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Williams,
Emmett
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Emmett Williams (4 April 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an American poet and visual artist.. American poet and visual artist
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Williams,
Hugo
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Williams,
John
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Williams,
Miller
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Miller Williams (born April 8, 1930) is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over twenty-five books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments have been chronicled in Arkansas Biography. He is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration.. American poet translator and editor
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Williams,
Oscar
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Oscar Williams (December 29, 1900 - October 10, 1964) was an American anthologist and poet. Oscar Williams was his pen name.. Jewish Ukrainian-American anthologist and poet
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Williams,
Saul
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Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.. African American singer musician poet writer and actor
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Williams,
Waldo
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Waldo (Goronwy) Williams (30 September 1904 – 20 May 1971) was one of the leading Welsh language poets of the twentieth century. He was also a notable pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist.. Welsh language poet; pacifist anti-war campaigner and Welsh nationalist
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Williams,
William Carlos (WCW)
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Williams (poet),
Jonathan
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Williams Pantycelyn,
William
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William Williams Pantycelyn (1717 – 11 January 1791), also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales' most famous hymn writer. He was also one of the key leaders of the 18th century Welsh Methodist revival, along with Daniel Rowland and Howell Harris. As a poet and prose writer he is today considered to be one of Wales' greatest writers. The son of John Williams, a small farmer at Pantycelyn ("holly hollow"), his mother's name was Dorothy. His father died in 1742. The farm is located 4 miles from Llandovery in West Wales. As a boy he attended a non-conformist church (Welsh usage: chapel) at Cefnarthen. Later the family identified with the Calvinist doctrines and moved church. Later, after his conversion, Williams was a painstaking upholder of traditional Reformation doctrine in its Calvinist form and gave stern warnings against Arminianism, Arianism, Socinianism, Sandelmanism and other deviations (ref.p.7 G. T. Hughes).. Welsh poet and hymn writer
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Wilmot,
John
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Wilmot, Earl of Rochester,
John
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Wilner,
Eleanor
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Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937 Ohio) is an American poet, and editor.. American poet and editor
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Wilson Gibson,
Wilfred
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Wiman,
Christian
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Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor. He was born (1966) and raised in West Texas and is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. He has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lynchburg College in Virginia, and the Prague School of Economics. Since 2003, he has been editor of the oldest and most prestigious American magazine of verse, Poetry (magazine).. American poet and editor
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Winters,
Yvor
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Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.. American poet and literary critic
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Wither,
George
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George Wither (11 June O.S., 1588 – 2 May O.S., 1667) was an English poet and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V. Wedgwood wrote "every so often in the barren acres of his verse is a stretch enlivened by real wit and observation, or fired with a sudden intensity of feeling".. English poet pamphleteer and satirist
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Wojaczek,
Rafal
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Wolf,
Christa
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Christa Wolf (born Christa Ihlenfeld on 18 March 1929) is a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.. German literary critic novelist poet and essayist
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Wolfe,
Charles
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Charles Wolfe (14 December 1791 – 21 February 1823) was an Irish poet, chiefly remembered for his "exquisite elegy", The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna. Irish poet
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Wollschläger,
Hans
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Hans Wollschläger (17 March 1935, Minden – 19 May 2007, Bamberg) was a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.. German writer translator historian and editor
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Woodcock,
George
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George Woodcock (May 8, 1912 - January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet, and published several volumes of travel writing. He founded in 1959 the journal Canadian Literature, the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. He is perhaps best remembered elsewhere for writing Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962), the first post-War history of anarchism.. Canadian writer of political biography and history an anarchist thinker an essayist poet and literary critic
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Wordsworth,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy did not set out to be an author, and her writings consist only of a series of letters, diary entries and short stories.. English author poet and diarist; sister of William Wordsworth
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Wordsworth,
William
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A major English romantic poet.. English Romantic poet
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Wright,
CD
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Wright,
Charles
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Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.. American poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Wright,
Franz
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Franz Wright (born March 18, 1953 Vienna, Austria) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.. American poet son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Wright,
James
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One of the most beloved American poets of the second half of the 20th century.. American poet father of Franz Wright; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Wright,
Judith
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An Australian poet.. Australian poet environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
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Wyatt,
Sir Thomas
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Wylie,
Elinor
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An American poet and novelist who was popular before World War II.. American poet and novelist
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Wyn,
Hedd
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Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans) (13 January 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a Welsh language war poet who was killed in World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod.. Welsh language poet
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