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Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

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The reason for this lies in the very heart of his poetry and poetic idiom ... and – if this phrase doesn’t sound too oxymoronic – even a popular poet. Bolesław Leśmian was born in Warsaw in 1877. He ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

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Christina Rossetti was one of the finest poets of the Victorian age ... Coca-Cola’s famous adverts), and among them in this famous poem, which many will know by its first words: ’Twas the ...

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