Howes, Barbara
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Howes, Barbara (1914–), New York‐born poet, reared near Boston, educated at Bennington, where she was influenced by Genevieve Taggard, is married to the poet
William Jay Smith. Her own lyrics, often quite formal, appear in
The Undersea Farmer (1948),
In the Cold Country (1954),
Light and Dark (1959),
Looking Up at Leaves (1966),
The Blue Garden (1972),
A Private Signal (1977), and
Moving (1983).
The Road Commissioner (1983) collects short stories.
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Genevieve Taggard's sentimental Marxism in calling Western Union.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; This article investigates Genevieve Taggard's Calling Western Union...economic spectrum. Thus, Taggard juxtaposes affluent characters...as activists in the 1930s, Genevieve Taggard and Muriel Rukeyser utilized...
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Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker. By NANCY BERKE. Gainesville...focusing respectively on the poetry of Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, and Margaret Walker. In the chapters Nancy Berke...
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Your Life: POETRY CORNER; Britain's top female poet selects a verse for women and discusses its meaning.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 10/31/2008; 509 words
; Byline: Carol Ann Duffy CarolAnn says: Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) wrote poetry from the age of 13 and...mysterious, even a little sad. WITH CHILD By GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Now I am slow and placid, of sun, Like a sleek...
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Your LIFE: POETRY CORNER; ONE of Britain's most successful female poets, selects a poem for women and discusses its meaning...(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 8/21/2007; 478 words
; ...Byline: Carol Ann Duffy MILLIONS OF STRAWBERRIES BY GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948) Marcia and I went over the curve...little dogs - in their lust to gorge on the berries. Taggard's informal placing of the rhymes in the poem - rhymes...
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Publications received.
Magazine article from: Feminist Studies; 6/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. Short stories. Berke, Nancy. Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. 224. $55.00. Berkeley, Bill. The...
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BEST BETS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/4/2001; 441 words
; ...Thomas R. Hendershot, who will read selections from the work of authors including Rudyard Kipling, Maya Angelou and Genevieve Taggard. The event is 7 p.m. Saturday at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 4512 College Ave., College Park. Free...
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Scribbling women.(A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...theme. Women writers are held captive in oppressive marriages, as in the case of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) or Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948); in sanitariums, like Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869-1935); by domestic encirclement like...
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Sob-Ballads.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...thin representation of thought and experience. He had Popular Front poets in mind, and named Langston Hughes, Genevieve Taggard, and Don West in particular. (11) The anti-sentimental critique was pitched against poets who tried to enlist...
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Freda Kirchwey: a woman of The Nation.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 9/12/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Yet she did not contribute to the series on "These Modern Women,' in which writers such as Crystal Eastman and Genevieve Taggard expressed their frustration and disillusionment with the first wave of post-feminism in this century. Although...
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Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege and the Politics of Subjectivity.
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...be far more provocative and far less predictable if its four central authors were Sarah Piatt, Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Ai? (Or many other quartets a reader might put together from the margins of the canon.) Yet the realist...
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Genevieve Taggard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Genevieve Taggard 1894-1948, American poet, b. Waitsburg, Wash. Her early years were spent in Hawaii. She returned to the United States in...
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Taggard, Genevieve
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Taggard, Genevieve (1894–1948), born in Washington, reared in Hawaii, graduated from the University of California (1919), and...
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Howes, Barbara
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...New York‐born poet, reared near Boston, educated at Bennington, where she was influenced by Genevieve Taggard, is married to the poet William Jay Smith . Her own lyrics, often quite formal, appear in The Undersea Farmer...
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