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Old-poets in Americas, by popularity

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  1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo   Americas. Born: 1803, Died: 1882, 112 poems.
  2. Americas, Anonymous   Americas. Born: 1000, Died: 1950, 217 poems.
    I am no one,
    Constructing eternity so
    I can live forever.
  3. Lanier, Sidney   Americas. Born: 1842, Died: 1881, 99 poems.
    A nineteenth century American romantic poet. He is most remembered for his much anthologized works such as such as The Marshes of Glynn and Song of the Chattahoochee.
  4. Ehrmann, Max   Americas. Born: 1872, Died: 1945, 6 poems.
  5. Wheatley, Phillis   Americas. Born: 1753, Died: 1784, 47 poems.
    Wheatley was the first Black writer of consequence in America; and her life was an inspiring example to future generations of African-Americans.  In the 1830s, abolitionists reprinted her poetry and the powerful ideas contained in her deeply moving v
  6. Silva, Jose Asuncion   Americas. Born: 1865, Died: 1896, 8 poems.
    One of the first Modernismo poets in the Spanish language.
  7. Whittier, John   Americas. Born: 1807, Died: 1892, 482 poems.
    I printed at my own expense, an edition of my first pamphlet, "Justice and Expediency." With the exception of a few dollars from the "Democratic Review" and "Buckingham’s Magazine," I received nothing for my poems and literary articles. Indeed, my pr
  8. Dickinson, Emily   Americas. Born: 1830, Died: 1886, 1063 poems.
    Emily only had six or seven of her poems published during her lifetime--and those without her consent.
  9. Nervo, Amado Ruiz de   Americas. Born: 1870, Died: 1919, 31 poems.
    Nervo traveled to Paris on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition in 1900, visiting Spain, Germany and Austria as well. He was profoundly influenced by modernism
  10. Teasdale, Sara   Americas. Born: 1884, Died: 1933, 313 poems.
    Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Some of her work anticipates modern feminist verse and the intimate, autobiographical style known as confessional poetry. A large number of Teasdale's poems deal with love and death.
  11. Hayden, Robert   Americas. Born: 1913, Died: 1980 (modern), 14 poems.
    A Detroit-born poet, Hayden first became internationally recognised in the sixties. A celebrated poet, his work frequently appears in American collections and anthologies.
  12. Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth   Americas. Born: 1917, Died: 2000 (modern), 40 poems.
    Her profound interest in poetry informed much of her early life. "Eventide," her first poem, was published in American Childhood Magazine in 1930.
  13. Holmes, Oliver Wendell   Americas. Born: 1809, Died: 1894, 343 poems.
  14. Morrison, James Douglas   Americas. Born: 1943, Died: 1971 (modern), 7 poems.
    As Morrison himself said of poetry:
    "real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities... opens all doors you can walk through any one that suits you. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the lim
  15. Alcott, Louisa May   Americas. Born: 1832, Died: 1888, 56 poems.
    More Famous for her Novels most of her poetry comes from songs she wrote for these or elegies for deceased friends and family.  Most famous Novel "Little Women"
  16. Farjeon, Eleanor   Americas. Born: 1881, Died: 1965 (modern), 28 poems.
  17. Stein, Gertrude   Americas. Born: 1874, Died: 1946, 25 poems.
    avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius, whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and Ii.
  18. Parker, Dorothy   Americas. Born: 1893, Died: 1967 (modern), 192 poems.
    An American critic, satirical poet, and short-story writer.
    Known for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit.
  19. Sterling, George   Americas. Born: 1869, Died: 1926, 128 poems.
  20. Plath, Sylvia   Americas. Born: 1932, Died: 1963 (modern), 283 poems.
    A sensitive person who tended to be a bit of a perfectionist she was what many would consider a model daughter and student - popular, a straight A student, always winning the best prizes.
  21. Service, Robert W   Americas. Born: 1874, Died: 1958 (modern), 836 poems.
    During his wanderings Service had spent much time reading and dreaming and one day he was invited to recite at a church concert. A friend of his suggested that Service write something about the Yukon.
  22. Knight, Etheridge   Americas. Born: 1931, Died: 1991 (modern), 9 poems.
    Spending many of his adolescent years working in pool halls, bars, and juke joints, he mastered the art of "telling toasts".
  23. Agustini, Delmira   Americas. Born: 1886, Died: 1914, 13 poems.
    Essentially a poet of ideas, Agustini combined deep spiritual and erotic yearnings in bold and expressive imagery. She abandoned traditional forms in her strongly controlled verses.
  24. Parker, Bonnie   Americas. Born: 1910, Died: 1934, 4 poems.
  25. O Hara, Frank   Americas. Born: 1926, Died: 1966 (modern), 46 poems.
    O'Hara believed that poetry should be a spur of the moment, personal spontaneity where abstract was ruled out in favor of the artist's personal style or voice.
  26. Doolittle, HD Hilda   Americas. Born: 1886, Died: 1961 (modern), 27 poems.
    H.D.'s first volume of verse, Sea Garden (1916), established her as an important voice among the radical young Imagist poets.
  27. Silverstein, Shel   Americas. Born: 1930, Died: 1999 (modern), 224 poems.
    In 1974 Silverstein published a collection of poems for children called Where The Sidewalk Ends. Bringing him comparisons to the likes of Dr. Seuss and Edward Lear, Where The Sidewalk Ends contained humorous efforts such as "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stou
  28. Lincoln, Abraham   Americas. Born: 1809, Died: 1865, 9 poems.
  29. Howard, Robert E.   Americas. Born: 1906, Died: 1936, 6 poems.
  30. Johnson, Tekahionwake Emily Pauline   Americas. Born: 1861, Died: 1914, 97 poems.
    one of the few female writers at the time who could make an independent living from her poetry and performances.
  31. Randall, Dudley   Americas. Born: 1914, Died: 2000 (modern), 9 poems.
  32. Tietjens, Eunice   Americas. Born: 1884, Died: 1944, 7 poems.
  33. Lowell, James Russell   Americas. Born: 1819, Died: 1891, 310 poems.
  34. Bishop, Elizabeth   Americas. Born: 1911, Died: 1979 (modern), 69 poems.
    Of her work, Robert Lowell remarked, "Elizabeth Bishop is the contemporary poet that I admire most .... There's a beautiful completeness to all of Bishop's poetry.
  35. Rexroth, Kenneth   Americas. Born: 1905, Died: 1982 (modern), 18 poems.
  36. MacLeish, Archibald   Americas. Born: 1892, Died: 1982 (modern), 33 poems.
    His Collected Poems (1952) won him a second Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize. J.B. (1958), a verse play based on the book of Job, earned him a third Pulitzer, this time for drama. And in 1965 he received an A
  37. Lampman, Archibald   Americas. Born: 1861, Died: 1899, 158 poems.
    A nineteenth century writer whose reputation as the finest of Canada's late 19th-century English poets stands to this day. He was a master of the sonnet, and his nature poems abound in vivid pictures of the Canadian landscape.
  38. Bello, Andres   Americas. Born: 1781, Died: 1865, 2 poems.
    His poetry is known for its classical style, celebrating the natural beauty and country life of South America.
  39. Borges, Jorge Luis   Americas. Born: 1899, Died: 1986 (modern), 17 poems.
    "A librarian wearing dark glasses asked him: 'What are you looking for?' Hladik answered: 'I am looking for God.' The librarian said to him: 'God is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand volumes of the Clementi
  40. Richards, Laura Elizabeth   Americas. Born: 1850, Died: 1943, 16 poems.
  41. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey   Americas. Born: 1836, Died: 1907, 91 poems.
    Hailed as the father of the American novel,
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich loved Portsmouth
  42. Lowell, Robert   Americas. Born: 1917, Died: 1977 (modern), 20 poems.
    His early works were influenced by his religious beliefs. I wasn't until he was much older before he loosened up in his writings and begin basing his work on personal experiences in his life.
  43. Redmond Fauset, Jesse   Americas. Born: 1882, Died: 1961 (modern), 5 poems.
    Had it not been for the publushing efforts of Jesse Redmond Fauset, we may have not known Langston Hughes and many other African American greats.
  44. Carver, Raymond Clevie   Americas. Born: 1938, Died: 1988 (modern), 19 poems.
    American short-story writer and poet, a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s.
  45. Conkling, Hilda   Americas. Born: 1910, Died: 1986 (modern), 104 poems.
  46. Bennett, Gwendolyn   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1981 (modern), 6 poems.
  47. Johnson, Fenton   Americas. Born: 1888, Died: 1958 (modern), 122 poems.
    It has been said that Fenton Johnson was a writer who wrote before his time.
  48. Field, Eugene   Americas. Born: 1850, Died: 1895, 275 poems.
    Eugene Field will be remembered mostly for being a children's poet. Some of his most famous poems are "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"; "The Duel"; and "Little Boy Blue".

  49. Heredia y Giraud, Jose Maria de   Americas. Born: 1842, Died: 1905, 15 poems.
    This Cuban-born poet was the greatest master of the French sonnet. Cousin and namesake of Jose Maria de Heredia (1803-1839).
  50. Riley, James Whitcomb   Americas. Born: 1849, Died: 1916, 470 poems.
    Riley, whose books were regularly published by Indianapolis's Bobbs-Merrill Company, became one of the best-loved poets in America.
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