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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Walt Whitman (1819-92) is one of the few great nineteenth-century American poets. With his innovative free verse and celebration of the American land...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The writer O. Henry was a prolific author of short stories, and a number of them are still widely taught in schools and colleges; his brief tales wit...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Emily Dickinson (1830-86) is one of the most original poets of the nineteenth century. If we set her work alongside that of her contemporaries, perha...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Robert Frost (1874-1963) is one of the most important, and popular, American poets of the twentieth century. Over a long career, he wrote poems about...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Langston Hughes (1901-67) was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance in New York in the 1920s. A prolific writer, he was a novelist, playwright, soci...

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