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Poets Profile

(1809-1849), American writer, known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the short-story form especially tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remainde popular and many mojor American and European writers have professed their artistic debt to him.

(1806-1861), English poet, political thinker, and feminist. Browning was born at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, and privately educated. She was incapacitated for nearly a decade after 1838 as a result of a childhood spinal injury and lung ailment. She continued writing and in 1844 produced volume of poems.

(1830-1886), American poet, whose lyrics are personal, psychologically astute treatments of such universal themes as love, death, and immortality. Although only a few of her poems were published during her lifetime, Dickinson is recognized as one of the greates and most influential American writers of verse.

Usually set amid the natural beauty of rural New England, the concise, direct poetry of Frost converys a wide range of emotions. He won Pulitzer Prize in poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943) and became known across the country when he recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in January 1961.

(1770-1850), English poet, one of the most accomplished and influential of England's romantic poets, whose theories and style created a new tradition in poetry. Althougsh Wordsworth had begun to write poetry while still a schoolboy, none of his poems was published until 1793, when An Evening Walk and Descriptive Skethces appeared.

(1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Shakespheare's plays communicate a profound knowledge of the wellsprings of human behavior, revealed through protrayals of a wide variety of characters.