Influential American poets
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These poets made an enormous impact on the art of poetry.
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1.
Emily Dickinson
one of the greatest poets the world has ever seen
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Anne Bradstreet
beautiful poet that was well ahead of her time
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Edgar Allen Poe
some of his work is dark but that is what makes him a great poet
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wonderful poet
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5.
Walt Whitman
this gay pedophile’s work is loved by many
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6.
Hart Crane
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7.
E.E. Cummings
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Allen Ginsburg
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D.A. Levy
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Langston Hughes
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Robert Frost
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Ezra Pound
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15.
William Carlos Williams
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Wallace Stevens
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Ogden Nash
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18.
Anne Sexton
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Emma Lazarus
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Marianne Moore
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