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poet laureate poet laureate
poet laureate , title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrowth of the medieval English custom of having versifiers and minstrels in the king's retinue, and of the later royal patronage of poets, such as Chaucer and ... Read more
Harold Monro Harold Monro
Harold Monro 1879-1932, English poet, b. Belgium. In 1911 he founded the Poetry Review and the following year established the Poetry Bookshop, which became a refuge and intellectual center for poets. His Poetry and Drama (1913), a successor to the Poetry Review, was discontinued during World... Read more
C Day Lewis C Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis (Cecil Day Lewis), 1904-72, English author, b. Ireland. While he was still at Oxford, he became associated with a group of leftist poets led by W. H. Auden . After graduation he taught at various schools until 1935 and then decided to devote himself to writing. He was professor of... Read more
American Poetry American Poetry
American Poetry Sources Bryant.In 1818 the young lawer William Cullen Bryant published a review of Solyman Brown’s verse Essay on American Poetryin the North American Review.Not particularly interested in or impressed by Brown’s poetry, Bryant instead used... Read more
Dudley Randall Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall1914–2000 Poet, publisher, editor In his roles as poet and publisher, Dudley Randall was the leading exponent of the new black poetry movement of the 1960s. Randall, whose critically-acclaimed poems prompted Detroit Mayor Coleman Young to name him the Poet Laureate of the City of... Read more
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz , 1905-2006, American poet, teacher, and editor, b. Worcester, Mass. He graduated from Harvard (B.A., 1926; M.A., 1927), worked as a journalist and editor, and taught poetry at many colleges and universities, notably Columbia (1967-85). Influenced by Carl Jung , his poetry,... Read more
Harriet Monroe Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe 1860-1936, American editor, critic, and poet, b. Chicago. In 1912 she founded Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, which paid and encouraged both established and new poets. Monroe's literary reputation is based on her editorship of this important magazine. She introduced to readers such... Read more
Louise Bogan Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan , 1897-1970, American poet and critic, b. Livermore, Maine. She spent much of her life in New York City and was for many years poetry editor for The New Yorker magazine. Her verse is intense, personal, and yet restrained, revealing a metaphysical awareness of the tragedy of life.... Read more
Mark Strand Mark Strand
Mark Strand 1934-, American poet, b. Prince Edward Island, Canada. His poetry is noted for its confrontation with the surreal and irrational. His collections include Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Darker (1970), Selected Poems (1980), Blizzard of One (1998; Pulitzer Prize), and New... Read more
Stevie Smith Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith (Margaret Florence Smith), 1902-71, English poet and novelist, b. Hull, Yorkshire. At first unnoticed as a poet, she worked in a London publisher's office until 1953. Steadily gaining respect, Smith won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1969. Her poetry speaks with a fiercely comic... Read more

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