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	Alfred Austin Alfred Austin 1835-1913, English author, b. Leeds. Originally trained for a legal career, he eventually turned to writing and politics. From 1883-95 he edited the National Review. Although in 1896 he succeeded Tennyson as poet laureate, his poetry is negligible, and he was the butt of many... Read more
	Venite Venite [Lat.,=come], Psalm 95, so called from its opening, "O come, let us sing unto the Lord." It is the opening psalm of the Roman Catholic matins and of the Anglican morning prayer.... Read more
	William Henry Hatch William Henry Hatch 1833-96, U.S. Congressman (1879-95), b. Scott co., Ky. He was admitted (1854) to the bar and moved to Hannibal, Mo. He became prominent in Democratic politics in Missouri and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Hatch devoted himself to agricultural legislation and... Read more
	Francis Turner Palgrave Francis Turner Palgrave 1824-97, English poet and anthologist; oldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave. Educated at Oxford, where he began his lifelong friendship with Tennyson, he was an official in the government education department until he became professor of poetry (1885-95) at Oxford. He is... Read more
	Rufus Wheeler Peckham Rufus Wheeler Peckham , 1838-1909, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1895-1909), b. Albany, N.Y. Admitted (1859) to the bar, he became a leading Albany lawyer and was prominent in local Democratic politics. He served on the state supreme court (1883-86) and on the state court of appeals... Read more
	John Bates Clark John Bates Clark 1847-1938, American economist, b. Providence, R.I. He studied economics in the U.S. and Germany, and taught at Columbia Univ. and several other colleges in the United States. In 1885 he helped found the American Economic Association, serving as its president (1893-95). Clark's... Read more
	Samuel Francis Smith Samuel Francis Smith 1808-95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn "America," written while he was a student at Andover Theological Seminary. Among his many other hymns is "The Morning Light Is Breaking."... Read more
	Theodore Dwight Weld Weld, Theodore Dwight (1803–95) US campaigner for the abolition of slavery. He was leader of the more moderate wing of the abolitionist movement. In 1839 he and his wife, Angelina Grimké, published American Slavery As It Is.... Read more
	Juana Ines de la Cruz Juana Inés de la Cruz , 1651-95, Mexican poet. She is considered the greatest lyric poet of the colonial period. A beautiful and intellectually precocious girl, Juana was a favorite at the viceregal court before entering a Mexican convent at the age of 16. Forced to study outside the... Read more

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	Free As A Bard: Stanley Kunitz becomes poet laureate; others sing of the... Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week ...Bard: Stanley Kunitz becomes poet laureate; others sing...sterm.For Kunitz, this is a second...laureate. The 95-year-old poet...That evening, Kunitz spoke about his...what is a Jewish poet is taken up in...editors invited26 poets to select one...World ...
	STATE DEPT.: U.S. POET LAUREATE STANLEY KUNITZ DIES AT 100 News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News ...U.S. poet laureate Stanley Kunitz once observed...language." Kunitz, one of the...when he was 95, Kunitz chose to look...the words of poet David Lehman...Yale Younger Poets competition...of his poetry became more frequent...
	STANLEY KUNITZ\ FORMER U.S. POET LAUREATE, PULITZER WINNER, DEAD AT... Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) ...U.S. poet laureate, died of natural...generation of poets as Robert Lowell...restraint, Kunitz often said...longevity as a poet: He was 90...existence," Kunitz told the Boston...when he was 95. "I don...wake up as a poet. I think that...generations of poets, ...
	ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PLENITUDE FOR STANLEY KUNITZ, POETRY IS PART OF THE... Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on...life spent, as Kunitz once put it...In his time, Kunitz seems to have...of dozens of poets. He won the...2001, at age 95, after the position was renamed poet laureate. His writer...Prize, and became the poet ...
	STANLEY KUNITZ, 100; HIS POETRY FUSED ELEGANCE, EARTHINESS Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...most-honored poets and a mainstay...announcement of Mr. Kunitz's death came...Among Mr. Kunitz's honors were...the nation's poet laureate was announced...who was then 95, for his "vigor...and for young poets and their work...helped make Mr. Kunitz a one-man ...
	IN BRIEF Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...punitive damages.New U.S. poet laureate Stanley Kunitz, 95, will become the 10th poet laureate of the United States...since produced nine more. Kunitz will succeed Robert Pinsky...15, 1999-the day they became sick. Lawyer James E. McCandlish...
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	Obituaries in the News News Wire article from: AP Online ...the Senate, Hecht became known for his verbal...AP) _ Stanley Kunitz, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize...W.W. Norton.Kunitz had just turned 95 when he was appointed...crystalized, with Kunitz once observing that...
	CAFE PHILOSOPHER Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...versifier Tonight, Stanley Kunitz, 95, returns to Worcester for...in his hometown since he became US poet laureate in October. The reading...Center in Provincetown and the Poets House in New York City. Kunitz divides his time between...
	The Collected Poems. (Verse).(Review) Magazine article from: World Literature Today Stanley Kunitz, The Collected...pages $27.95. ISBN 0-393...0 STANLEY KUNITZ, BORN in 1905...moment when he became the U.S. Poet Laureate. A native of...fine American poets, and began...contemplate. Kunitz has never belonged...