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The Words of Beauty and Time. Poets of the Times Evan Sauve. William Shakespeare. My birthdate is unknown, but it was around 1564. I was born in Warwickshire, England. My works include: “All The World’s a Stage” “Witches’ Chant” “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”
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The Words of Beauty and Time Poets of the Times Evan Sauve
William Shakespeare • My birthdate is unknown, but it was around 1564. I was born in Warwickshire, England. • My works include: • “All The World’s a Stage” • “Witches’ Chant” • “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind” • But you probably know me for my playwriting. I wrote Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
William Blake • I was born November 28th, 1757 in London, England. • My works include: • “Milton” • Songs of Innocence and of Experience • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Robbie Burns • I was born January 25th, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. • My works include: • “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough” • “Ae fond Kiss and then we sever” • “Halloween”
Edgar Allan Poe • I was born January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. • My works include: • Al Araaaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems • Ultalume • The Raven and Other Poems
Emily Dickinson • I was born December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. • My works include: • “If I Can Stop” • “Behind me Dips Eternity” • “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”
Robert Frost • I was born March 26th, 1874 in San Francisco, California. • My works include: • A Boy’s Will • “After Apple-Picking” • “Mending Wall”
Shel Silverstein • I was born September 25th, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois. • My works include: • “Bear in There” • “Ickle Me, Tickle Me, Pickle Me Too” • The Giving Tree (children’s book)
Maya Angelou • I was born April 4th, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri. • My works include: • Seven Autobiographies • Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Dillie (collection of poems) • “On the Pulse of the Morning” (poem)