Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 51 Shelby Foote 51 Phillis Wheatley 50 slave narratives 49 Stanley Kunitz 48 anthologized 48 Eric Foner 48 Today Birthdays Author 47 Sean Wilentz 47 poetry 47 Alan Lomax 47 Eighteenth century 47 Romantic poets 47 folklorists 47 Ishmael Reed 46 Langston Hughes 46 Lewis Grizzard 46 Thomas Paine 46 poet Walt Whitman 46 Guggenheim Fellow 46 Fisk Jubilee Singers 46 poems 45 Siegfried Sassoon 45 Flannery O'Connor 45 playwright novelist 45 John Greenleaf Whittier 45 poet playwright 45 abolitionist Frederick Douglass 45 WH Auden 45 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 45 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 45 poetry anthology 44 poet 44 EE Cummings 44 Eubie Blake 44 Gullah culture 44 Shakespeare sonnets 44 St. Vincent Millay 44 Civil War 44 WEB Dubois 44 HL Mencken 44 PEN Faulkner Award 44 Nikki Giovanni 44 Samuel Pepys 44 Walt Whitman 44 poets 43 Mark Twain 43 Theodor Geisel 43 writings 43 Arthur Rimbaud 43 poets laureate 43 Percy Bysshe Shelley 43 Pushcart Prize 43 Louis Auchincloss 43 Herman Melville 43 Zora Neale Hurston 43 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 43 Herman Melville Moby Dick 43 G. Woodson 43 Theodore Dreiser 43 Harlem Renaissance 43 Gwendolyn Brooks 43 unpublished manuscripts 42 Antebellum 42 Elizabethans 42 Anthony Trollope 42 Civil War era 42 chapbooks 42 John Ashbery 42 Charles Simic 42 James Michener 42 Confederate generals 42 Albert Camus 42 Ezra Pound 42 Jay Parini 42 Geoffrey Chaucer 42 Garry Wills 42 Theodor Seuss Geisel 42 Stephen Leacock 41 painstakingly researched 41 Arthur Koestler 41 R. Buckminster Fuller 41 Greil Marcus 41 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 41 Gullah 41 Romare Bearden 41 Pablo Neruda 41 Gilder Lehrman Institute 41 philosopher George Santayana 41 Nat Hentoff 41 WEB DuBois 41 prose poems 41 WC Handy 41 Eric Hoffer 41 narrative nonfiction 41 John Donne 41 TS Eliot 41 Kingsley Amis 41 Pulitzer Prize winning 41 Emily Bronte 41 Frederick Douglass 41 poetry prose