| Joseph Auslander
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1937-1941
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known for his war poems
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Allen Tate
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1943-1944
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famous for "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
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Robert Penn Warren
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1944-1945
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wrote "All the King's Men"
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Louise Bogan
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1945-1946
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themes were love and grief
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Karl Shapiro
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1946-1947
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poems evoked powerful images
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Robert Lowell
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1947-1948
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considered the father of "confessional poetry."
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Leonie Adams
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1948-1949
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lyrical style and in the style of English Romantic Poetry
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Elizabeth Bishop
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1949-1950
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wrote about the human connection with the natural world
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