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A. R. Ammons — American Poet born on February 18, 1926, died on February 25, 2001

Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993. He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones. Among the topics often addressed by Ammons in his poetry, those of religious and philosophical concern are visited in his works as are many scenes involving nature, almost in a Transcendental fashion. According to one reviewer, Daniel Hoffman, his work "is founded on an implied Emersonian division of experience into Nature and the Soul," adding that it "sometimes consciously echo familiar lines from Emerson, Whitman and Dickinson.".. (wikipedia)