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Poet Dates Birthplace
Anne Dudley Bradstreet 1612-72 Northampton, England
William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 Cummington, MA
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-82 Boston, MA
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-82 Portland, ME
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-92 Haverhill, MA
Edgar Allen Poe 1809-49 Boston, MA
Walter Whitman 1819-92 Huntington, NY
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 1830-86 Amherst, MA
James Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916 Greenfield, IN
Emma Lazarus 1849-87 New York, NY
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919 Johnstown, WI
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869-1935 Head Tide, ME
Robert Lee Frost 1874-1963 San Francisco, CA
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 Reading, PA
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound 1885-1972 Hailey, ID
Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886-1918 New Brunswick, NJ
Alan Seeger 1888-1916 New York, NY
Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888-1965 St Louis, MO
Cole Albert Porter 1891-1964 Peru, IN
Archibald MacLeish 1892-1982 Glencoe, IL
Dorothy RothschildParker 1893-1967 West End, NJ
James Langston Hughes 1902-67 Joplin, MO
Ogden Nash 1902-71 Rye, NY
Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-73 York, England
Elizabeth Bishop 1911-79 Worcester, MA
Randall Jarrell 1914-65 Nashville, TN
Richard Purdy Wilbur 1921- New York, NY
Denise Levertov 1923-97 Ilford, England

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