American poet, essayist, educator Robert Hayden born

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Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
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Amercian Academy of Poets - Robert Hayden

American poet Theodore Roethke born

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Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
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Amercian Academy of Poets - Theodore Roethke

English metaphysical poet and Parliamentarian Andrew Marvell born

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"World enough, and time"—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
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American Academy of Poets: Andrew Marvell

Wilfred Owen, British poet and WWI soldier, is born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
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American Academy of Poets - Wilfred Owen

Boris Pasternak, Russian author of Doctor Zhivago, born

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American Academy of Poets: Boris Pasternak
Nobel Prize in Literature 1958
Masterpiece Theatre: Doctor Zhivago

Cornerstone laid for the Statue of Liberty

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The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol

Edgar Allan Poe dies

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Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator
Tales of the Supernatural
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Thinkfinity - October 7 Edgar Allan Poe, poet and author, died in 1849

Robert Frost, American poet, is born

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Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
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National Poetry Month: The Power of Poetry
The Robert Frost Farm: Teachers' Resources

Emily Dickinson's “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers” is published

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Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis
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21 Poems for AP English Literature and Composition
American Academy of Poets: "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers"
Performer's at the Globe Theater in London

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