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Published in 1922 and widely regarded as one of the greatest poems of the 20th century, “The Waste Land,” by Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, is the quintessential Modern poem. The poem is composed of a chain...

Emily Dickinson was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Mass. Dickinson—though she only started writing poetry when she was 22—wrote 1,775 poems (Johnson, v). However, in her lifetime only seven were...

“God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!” “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin, was published in 1963 and comprises two essays. The first essay is a letter Baldwin...