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Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
Resemble graves; be metaphysical mules;
Learn Lord will not distort nor leave the fray. - Gwendolyn Brooks Attribution: Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. “The children of the poor,” 3.

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Critical Companions:

• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Feminism)

Encyclopedia:

• Brooks, Gwendolyn (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Gwendolyn Brooks (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (The Sixties in America)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Literary Criticism:

• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 125) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Gwendolyn Brooks dies
• Gwendolyn Brooks publishes In the Mecca
• Gwendolyn Brooks receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Annie Allen
• Gwendolyn Brooks receives Pulitzer Prize in poetry
• Gwendolyn Brooks publishes Annie Allen
• Gwendolyn Brooks is born