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George Barker
George Barker (George Granville Barker), 1913-91, English poet, b. Essex, England. He has taught in Japan and the United States as well as in England. His highly dramatic poems, often concerned with themes of remorse and pain, led critics to place him—perhaps misleadingly—among the ... Read more |
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Louis Zukofsky
Zukofsky, Louis (1904–78), born of Russian immigrant parents on New York's Lower East Side, has come to be recognized as a major poet although his work was not commercially printed in a book until he was in his fifties. His lyric poems, spare, precise, and powerful, were first gathered from... Read more |
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore 1887-1972, American poet, b. St. Louis, grad. Bryn Mawr College, 1909. She lived mostly in New York City, working first as a librarian and later as acting editor of the Dial (1925-29). Her poetry, constructed like a precise mosaic, is witty, intellectual, and often satirical.... Read more |
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Louis Simpson
Louis Simpson 1923-, American poet, b. Jamaica, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1959). He began teaching at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1959. Using experience—frequently drawn from his childhood in Jamaica in his earlier work and later reflecting ordinary daily... Read more |
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Babette Deutsch
Babette Deutsch , 1895-1982, American poet, b. New York City. Her poems are noted for their technical virtuosity and wide range of tone and subject matter. Her best-known collections include Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1954), Coming of Age (1959), and Collected Poems (1963 and 1969). She also... Read more |
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Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred Kreymborg , 1883-1966, American poet and anthologist, b. New York City. Originally one of the imagists , he wrote poems collected in Mushrooms (1916), Manhattan Men (1929), Selected Poems (1945), and Man and Shadow (1946). He chronicled American poetry in such works as the critical... Read more |
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Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger 1888-1916, American poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1910. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in battle in 1916. He is famous for his war poem, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." Bibliography: See his Collected Poems (1916) and his letters... Read more |
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David Wagoner
Wagoner, David [Russell] (1926–), born in Ohio, a professor at the University of Washington since 1954, is best known as a poet of quiet and accomplished lyric power, often writing of the Northwestern scene. His poems are collected in Dry Sun, Dry Wind (1953), A Place to Stand (1958), The... Read more |
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Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart , 1904-2005, American poet, b. Austin, Minn., grad. Dartmouth (1926) and Cambridge (1929, 1933). He taught at various universities before becoming a professor at Dartmouth (1956-71). His poetry, noted for its lyric simplicity and directness, has as frequent themes the loss of... Read more |
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
...everyday rural life of New England. His earliest...tracts and the verse collected in Poems Written During...antislavery verse was collected in Voices of Freedom (1846...Other prose works collected from this paper were...In War Time and Other ... |
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Yeats, William Butler
...1891) and editing The Poems of William Blake (1893...vols, 1893), and Poems of Spenser (1906...in March (1935), New Poems (1938), and...publications include Collected Poems (1950), Collected Plays (1952), ... |
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Freneau, Philip (Morin)
...1832), born in New York of Huguenot...latter wrote the poem The Rising Glory of America...Fancy” and other poems. After assisting...biting satirical poems, which included General Gage...Night,” romantic poems inspired by the ... |
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Williams, William Carlos
...like his Collected Poems, 1921–1931 (1934), were...we argued, the poem ...is an object...The Complete Collected Poems ...1906–1938...long, structureless poem, including much...the appearance of a New Jersey ... |
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Rich, Adrienne (Cecile)
...Life (1966), Selected Poems (1967), Leaflets...Poems Selected and New (1975), The Dream...the Republic (1995) collected poems from 1991 to 1995...Midnight Salvage (1999) collected poems from 1995 to 1998, ... |
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Ginsberg, Allen
...Allen (1926–), New Jersey‐born poet, after...publication of Howl and Other Poems (1956), which became...antiauthoritarian views as well as his new belief in Zen Buddhism...made him the guru of a new generation, a cult figure for...dating back only to 1977; ... |
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Frost, Robert (Lee)
...1963), member of a New England family, was...published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will (1913...his first book. His Collected Poems (1930, Pulitzer...seriousness. A new edition of Collected Poems (1939) ... |
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Van Doren, Mark (Albert)
...and studied ten great poems in The Noble Voice...among the sources of Collected Stories (1962). His...1931), a narrative; Collected Poems (1939, Pulitzer...war poems; The Country New Year (1946), lyrics...Morning Worship ... |
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...93) was employed in New York City. His first...symbolic power. Other poems in the volume include...Taverns (1920) contains poems further illustrating this...mind, and a volume of Collected Poems of this year won...in Doubt, the title ... |
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Stevens, Wallace
...1897–1900) and at New York University Law School...Autumn (1950), and Collected Poems (1954). Opus Posthumous...plays, essays, some poems, including the full...prints a selection of poems and the play Bowl, Cat...does the belief thatThe ... |
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Macpherson, James
...translator’ whose Poems of Ossian (1760...epic. Although titled Poems, Macpherson's work...Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of...Temora (1763). The Poems' authenticity was challenged...Ossianic Controversy (New York, ... |
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Carter, Elliott (Cook)
...classical in style but a new harmonic structure and treatment...modulation’ whereby a new tempo is established from development...on many subjects were collected into one vol. (NY 1977). Prin. works: BALLETS: Pocahontas...1975, rev. 1979); 3 Poems of Robert ... |
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Anglo-Saxons
...burial at Sutton Hoo (mound 1) and the poem Beowulf for example. From obscure beginnings...marriage and war, for example—the new religion might conflict with traditional...England owed much to Europe. The books collected on the continent by Benedict Biscop, and... |
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collection
...a collection for her burial. ∎ a sum collected in this way. 2. a group of things...or recording containing various texts, poems, songs, etc.: a collection of essays. ∎ a range of new clothes produced by a fashion house: a... |
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Ālvārs
...Kṛṣṇa religion, and their works were collected in the Nāl-āyira-divya-prabandham...the Nāyaṇmār), they promulgated a new, bhakti-oriented form of religion in...number is twelve, but because not all poems are ‘signed’ (in the concluding... |
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The Collected Poems of June Jordan: New and Collected Poems.
...cloth, ISBN 9781556592287. New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed...1969's Who Look At Me, a long poem responding to images of African...Americans, to the fifty-one late poems collected here for the first time, ... |
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NEW COLLECTED POEMS
...voice worth listening to NEW COLLECTED POEMS by W. S. Graham...are the most talkative poems of the 20th century...described Graham's poems as being 'all baits...home in are the letter poem and the monologue...applause. ... |
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The Owner of the House: New and Collected Poems 1940-2001.(Book Review)
...Owner of the House: New and Collected Poems 1940-2001 by...News of Death and Other Poems is ironic, because at...and startling, these poems are not his most significant...stride after the long poem, "The Runners," ... |
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The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996.
...Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems allows us...first book of poems, published in...Psychiatrists," the long poem that concludes...view. The title poem of Sadness and...struggled in all his poems to ... |
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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003.(Book Review)
...Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 by...and a privilege to read collected here Valentine's poems...Valentine's later poems are similarly epic in...the seventy-three new ... |
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What great art removes.(Domestic Violence and New Collected Poems by Eavan...
New Collected Poems By Eavan Boland...paperback A volume of collected poems often has the...if there is no collected poems, or if the...and adds two poems from a 1962 chapbook...public ... |
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The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996.
...The publication of a "new and collected" edition of poems by...Indeed, the "new and collected" may be said to insist...Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1975...the twenty-one ... |
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Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997.(Review)
...Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997...writings 1935-1984' are collected in Look Back Harder...Zealander, whose `new and collected poems 1941-1997', entitled...transcribed with the word ... |
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New editions.('New and Collected Poems for Children' and 'Collected...
New and Collected Poems for Children (09...years ago that I reviewed Collected Poems by the accessible...irresistible hardback of New and Collected Poems extending the previous...word glee. As ... |
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Book reviews: New Collected Poems by WS Graham: Master of rhymes not to be...
New Collected Poems by WS Graham Edited...compelling ends in such a poem as Daddy. Stevie...condition in poem after poem, all of them couched...1955), a long poem about a night spent...s writing. His ... |
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