- Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) (15)
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- Mali, Taylor
Official site for the performance poet includes online poetry, calendar, personal journal, and more.
www.taylormali.com
- Attila the Stockbroker
Includes poetry, history, and news from the ranting poet famous for penning Russians in the DHSS.
www.attilathestockbroker.com
- Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973) (9)
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- Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400) (23)
Discover Chaucer, the first major poet in the English language after Norman conquest who invented metre and other poetic conventions. Sites offer bio, medieval background, seminars, excerpts, glossary, and study resources for the poet and his poetic epics, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
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- Melville, Herman (1819-1891)@
Read about Herman Melville, the American novelist who wrote, among many, one of the canonical novels of the English language, Moby Dick. Sites offer biography, works, quotations, study guides, memorabilia, and bibliography of the writer whose works were precursor to existentialist literature.
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- Nostradamus (1503-1566)@
Discover Nostradamus, the 16th century French physician and astrologer known for his prophetic quatrains. Sites feature life, writings, prophecies, translations, hoaxes, and misquotes attributed to the prophet who predicted various events including World War III, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and political upheavals.
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- Alexie, Sherman@
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- Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) (24)
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- Neurotic Poets
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Exploration of madness and creativity in the lives of famous poets. Includes biographical sketches discussing their work in context.
www.neuroticpoets.com
- Keats, John (1795-1821) (6)
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- Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) (13)
Find out about Imamu Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones), the American poet, playwright, music critic, and writer of essays through sites featuring biography, photos, poems, and filmography.
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- Pope, Alexander (1688-1731) (6)
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- Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994)@
Find out about Charles Bukowski, the prolific poet and novelist from Los Angeles who influenced contemporary authors and popular culture with his works like Ham on Rye, Love Is a Dog From Hell, Post Office, and the screenplay for Barfly. Sites feature biography, photographs, his works, bibliography, and tribute pages.
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- Hafiz (5)
Discover Hafez, the Persian mystic and poet through sites which offer biography, online texts, criticism, audio clips, and translations of the Sufi poetry and ghazal compositions of the poet popularly known as the Nightingale of Shiraz (Ian).
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- Zephaniah, Benjamin (2)
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- Elizabeth I (1533-1603)@
Learn about Elizabeth I, Queen of England, France, and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, her reign referred to as the Elizabethan era brought in reforms of the Church of England establishing a compromise between Catholic and Protestant. Sites offer history, biography, genealogy, legacy, reign, poems and speeches, and photographs.
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- Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956)@
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- Rollins, Henry@
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- Soto, Gary (3)
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