Robert Hayden

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Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - 1980), born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, was a United States African-American poet, essayist, and educator. He grew up in an adopted family in 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 the most well-known Bahá'í poets and his religion influenced much of his work.

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Robert Hayden was elected to the American Academy of Poets in 1975. From 1976 - 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the position which later became the Poet Laureate.

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Hayden's most famous and most anthologized poem is Those Winter Sundays, which deals with the memory of fatherly love and loneliness. Other famed poems include The Whipping, which is about a small boy being severely punished for some undetermined offense, Middle Passage, Runagate, Runagate, and Frederick Douglass.

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