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Mary Oliver - Famous works include 'Long Life: Essays And Other Writings,' 'Why I Wake Early: New Poems,' and 'White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems.'

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Bob Dylan -

Famous works include 'Chronicles: Volume One,' 'Masked and Anonymous,' and 'Renaldo and Clara.'

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Herman Melville -

Famous works include 'The Whale' and 'The Confidence-Man.'

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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Famous works include 'Fatal interview,' 'The murder of Lidice,' and 'The harp-weaver and other poems.'

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Gary Snyder -

Famous works include 'The Practice of the Wild,' 'Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems,' and 'Earth house hold.'

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Carl Sandburg -

Famous works include' 'Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years,' and 'Chicago Poems.'

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W. S. Merwin -

Famous works include 'The Ends of the Earth,' 'Selected Poems,' 'Unframed Originals,' and 'Migration: New & Selected Poems.'

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Adrienne Rich -

Famous works include 'Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972,' 'An Atlas of the Difficult World,' and 'Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998.'

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Marianne Moore -

Famous works include 'The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore,' 'Homage to Henry James,' and 'Tell Me.'

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Sylvia Plath -

Famous works include 'The Bell Jar,' 'Ariel,' and 'The Collected Poems.'

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Elizabeth Bishop -

Her most famous work is 'Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters.'

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Allen Tate -

Famous works include 'Hovering Fly and Other Essays' and 'Collected Poems, 1919-1976.'

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Robert Lowell -

Famous works include 'Life Studies,' 'Collected Prose,' and 'Near the ocean.'

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Robert Penn Warren -

Famous works include 'All the King's Men,' 'American Literature,' and 'Flood.'

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Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Famous works include 'The Fortune of the Republic,' 'English Traits,' and 'Representative Men.'

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Theodore Roethke -

Famous works include 'The Far Field' and 'The Lost Son: And Other Poems.'

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John Berryman -

Famous works include 'The Dream Songs,' 'Berryman's Shakespeare,' and '77 Dream Songs.'

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Charles Bukowski -

Famous works include 'Barfly,' 'Ham on Rye,' and 'Post Office.'

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Robinson Jeffers - Famous works include 'The beginning & the end, and other poems' and 'Z̆eny od mysu Sur.'

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Famous works include 'Evangeline,' 'A Tale of Acadie,' and 'The Village Blacksmith.'

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William Carlos Williams -

Famous works include 'In the American Grain,' 'Spring and All,' and 'Sour Grapes.'

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Wallace Stevens -

Famous works include 'The Emperor of Ice-Cream,' 'Harmonium,' and 'Invective Against Swans.'

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E.E. Cummings -

Famous works include 'The Enormous Room,' 'Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town,' and 'Selected Poems: 1923-58.' His most well-known poem is 'i carry your heart with me.'

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Ezra Pound -

Famous works include 'Social Credit. An Impact,' 'The Cantos,' and 'ABC of Economics.'

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Edgar Allen Poe -

Famous works include 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'

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T.S. Eliot - Famous works include 'The Waste Land,' 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' and 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.'

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Emily Dickinson - Famous works include 'The Complete Poems,' 'Letters of Emily Dickinson,' and 'Acts of Light: The World of Emily Dickinson.'

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Robert Frost - Famous works include 'Come In' and 'The Road Not Taken.'

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Walt Whitman -

Famous works include 'Leaves of Grass,' 'Song of Myself,' and 'Words of Ages.'

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