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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in a small black community that had settled in the Berkshire County town around the time of the Revolutionary War.

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Song of the Smoke, The

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What two great twentieth century poets shared an attic room in the house of the poet John Crowe Ransom?

Answer

Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. Both were Ransom's students at Kenyon College.

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