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  2. Jack Prelutsky - Wikipedia

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    Website. jackprelutsky.com. Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.

  3. Eugene Field - Wikipedia

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    American. Occupation. Writer. Children. Eugene Field II. Signature. Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood". [1]

  4. José García Villa - Wikipedia

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    José García Villa[1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [2][3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [4] He is known to have introduced the "reversed ...

  5. Matsuo Bashō - Wikipedia

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    Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉, 1644 – November 28, 1694); [2] born Matsuo Kinsaku (松尾 金作), later known as Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa (松尾 忠右衛門 宗房) [3] was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after ...

  6. Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia

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    Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...

  7. My Shadow (poem) - Wikipedia

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    My Shadow is an 1885 poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. Among his most famous poems for children, [1][2] it appeared in A Child's Garden of Verses in 1885. [3][4] It is written in iambic heptameter, as it is written in iambs and contains seven metrical feet per line, each of which can be considered a fourteener, as each iamb consists of two syllables.

  8. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes. Children have always enjoyed both works of poetry written for children and works of poetry intended for adults. In the West, as people's conception of childhood changed, children's poetry shifted from being a teaching tool to a ...

  9. After Blenheim - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from The Children's Encyclopædia. " After Blenheim " is an anti- war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), with the questions of two small children about a skull one of them has found. Their grandfather, an old man, tells them of burned ...

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