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Robert Kelley Weeks

1840–1876


Robert Kelley Weeks (1840–1876) was an American poet, born and died in New York City. A graduate of Yale and a member of the New York bar, he gave up law for literature.

He published Poems (1866) and Episodes and Lyric Pieces (1870). Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.

  1. Medusa
  2. A Song for Lexington
  3. Man and Nature

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