Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: He wrote, "How willingly we turn us then/Away from this cold earth,/And look into thy azure breast" in the poem "The Skies," while his uneventful later years saw the publication of "The Little People of the Snow. " This author of the long poem "The Flood of Years" declared in the introduction to A Library of Poetry and Song his thesis that (*) America must create a distinct poet voice. He wonders about the "solitary way" of the title figure of one work, while this author of "The Ages" and "To the Fringed Gentian" created a "Hymn to Death" that recalled his most famous work, which begins "to him who in the love of nature holds/Communion with her visible forms. " FTP, identify this American poet, the author of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis. "
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Literature