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Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - 1980), born when Asa Bundy Sheffey, was the United States African-American poet, essayist, and educator.
Life Hayden grew higher around an adoptive personal inside Detroit, Michigan. He was raised as a Baptist, but converted to the Bahá'í religion during the early 1940s after marrying a Bahá'í, Inez Morris. He is one of a virtually all easily-known Bahá'í poets & his religion influenced lot of his function.
Career Hayden was elected to the Our contries Academy of Poets within 1975. From either 1976 - 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position which late became the Poet Laureate. Hayden's best known & virtually all anthologized poem is Those Winter Sundays, which deals by having a memory of fatherly love & loneliness. More illustrious verse form include A Whipping, which is just about the little son existence severely punished for occasionally undecided offense, Middle Passage, Runagate, Runagate, & Frederick Douglass.
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Those Winter Sundays Poem at University of Calgary. Robert Hayden's Epic of Community Article about Hayden's themes as expressed in his writings and their cultural antecedents. Modern American Poetry: Robert Hayden Articles on Hayden's life and influence. Reviews of several poems. Recentering: The Turning of the Tide and Robert Hayden Essay on Baha'i religious principles as illustrated in Hayden's poetry. Robert Hayden The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. |
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