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Cullen, Countee
(Encyclopedia) Cullen, CounteeCullen, Counteekounˈtēˈ [key], 1903–46, American poet, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ. 1925, M.A. Harvard, 1926. A major writer of the Harlem Renaissance—a…poetry
(Encyclopedia) poetry. For lyric poetry, see ballad; elegy; hymn; lyric; ode; pastoral; sonnet. For narrative poetry, see chansons de geste; epic; idyl; romance. Dramatic poetry is incidentally…Jarrell, Randall
(Encyclopedia) Jarrell, RandallJarrell, Randalljərĕlˈ [key], 1914–65, American poet and critic, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. (B.A., 1935; M.A., 1938). His poetry, reflecting an…Tannhäuser
(Encyclopedia) TannhäuserTannhäusertänˈhoizər [key], 13th cent., German minnesinger, whose adventurous wanderings became the subject of legend. Sixteen of his own lyrics are extant, including…Scruggs, Earl Eugene
(Encyclopedia) Scruggs, Earl Eugene, 1924–2012, American banjo player, b. Flint Hill, N.C. He developed a distinctive syncopated, three-finger style on the five-string banjo that changed the way it…Gunn, Thom
(Encyclopedia) Gunn, Thom (Thomson William Gunn), 1929–2004, Anglo-American poet, b. Gravesend, Kent, England, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge (1953). Gunn published his first volume of poems, the…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Caledonia-A Ballad
by Robert Burns Rhyming Reply To A Note From C...To Miss CruickshankCaledonia-A Ballad Tune-"Caledonian Hunts' Delight" of Mr. Gow. There was once a day, but old Time wasythen…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: A Tippling Ballad
by Robert Burns Here's A Health To Them That's AwaA Tippling Ballad On the Duke of Brunswick's Breaking up his Camp, and the defeat of the Austrians, by Dumourier, November 1792.…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Ballad Third
by Robert Burns Ballad Second-Election DayInscription For An Altar Of IndependenceBallad Third John Bushby's Lamentation. Tune-"Babes in the Wood." 'Twas in the seventeen hunder…Joyce Kilmer: Ballade of my Lady's Beauty
Ballade of my Lady's BeautyJoyce KilmerSquire Adam had two wives, they say, Two wives had he, for his delight, He kissed and clypt them all the day And clypt and kissed them all the night…Trending
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