There were five famous Midwestern poets in the 20th century. The five were Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsey, Edna St. Vencent Millay, and Sara Teasdale. Sandburg, Masters, and Lindsey were from Illinois; Sandburg, Millay and Lindsey were first recognized in Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Carl Sandburg looked up to Robert Frost. He was unlike Frost in many ways, Frost used poetry as a profession, and Sandburg used it as a hobby, trying out many different jobs in between.
[...] Ezra Pound and Harriet Monroe worked together to bring many poets to fame, poets that are being read in textbooks and poets whose names are written in history books. Poets such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H.D., James Joyce, Earnest Hemmingway, and T.S. Eliot. In 1920, Pound left London for Paris. After five years of living there, he settled in Italy. He began to write a poem, an epic, which consumed much of his time. It was called The Cantos. [...]
[...] When he published his probably most famous poem, The Congo, it criticized African Americans harshly. Many children had to memorize the poem at school, which was easy to do since it was a poem. He wasn't as racist as some call him to be; he helped the now famous black poet Langston Hughes get his work published in the 1920's. He ended up killing himself in 1931, he died poor, sick, and defenseless. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Maine in 1892. [...]
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