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| Search results for: | Found 631 Poets |
| 171. |  | John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Dryden was educated first at Westminster School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first poetic works... |
| 172. |  | Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
ROBERT SOUTHEY poet laureate of England, was born at Bristol, August 12, 1774, and he died at Greta, March 21,... |
| 173. |  | Wislawa Szymborska (1923 - present)
Wislawa Szymborska was born in Kornik in Western Poland on 2 July 1923. Since 1931 she has been living in Krak... |
| 174. |  | Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Walter Scott, born in College Wynd, Edinburgh, was the son of a lawyer. Educated first at Edinburgh High Schoo... |
| 175. |  | Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 - 1618)
Sir Walter Raleigh signed his name many different ways. Once, in 1578, he signed it Rawleyghe. Until 1583 he... |
| 176. |  | Yusef Komunyakaa (1947 - present)
Born 1947 and raised in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as an information specialist, saw co... |
| 177. |  | Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
(John) Robinson Jeffers, (1887-1962), Poet, writer; born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He attended six colleges and univ... |
| 178. |  | Derek Walcott (1930 - present)
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Less... |
| 179. |  | Alden Nowlan (1933 - 1983)
Alden Nowlan left school before graduating and during his adolescent years worked at a variety of jobs, all of... |
| 180. |  | Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
The son of a shoemaker, Marlowe was born two months before Shakespeare. A great wit and a precocious talent, h... |
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