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  1. Phyllis Wheatley
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  15. Walt Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"
 
     
     
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  1. Visions of Poets
  2. Thomas Jefferson Was a Poet, and We Didn't Even Know It
  3. The "Parallel Lives" of Lincoln and Whitman
  4. A Bard in the White House?
  5. The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty
  6. Poetry Across the Atlantic
  7. A Lucky Thirteenth
  8. Commentary on "I Hear America Singing"
  9. Each of Us Is Inevitable
  10. Summer's Here
  11. Ode To Autumn
  12. A Snowflake Is a Snowflake Is a Snowflake
  13. Smell & Envy
  14. Shakespeare and Genius
 
     
     
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Wheatley, Phillis. "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." 1773. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. 		 
     
     
 
"Who knows?" : ballad / poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Circa 1908. The John Hay Library (Brown University) Sheet Music Collection. 		 
     
     
 
"Edgar Allen Poe." Photo of daguerreotype by W.S. Hartshorn 1848; copyright 1904 by C.T. Tatman. 		 
     
     
 
Van Vechten, Carl. "Portrait of James Weldon Johnson." 1932 Dec. 3. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. 		 
     
     
 
Van Vechten, Carl. "Portrait of Langston Hughes." 1936 Feb. 29. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. 		 
     
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