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Objectivist
Objectivist, school of poetry influenced by William Carlos Williams that came to prominence in the 1930s. It sees poetry as process whose form begins with the object dealt with and moves by improvisation through verbal associations inspired by the initial object. Leading Objectivist poets are ... Read more |
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Muses
Muses in Greek religion and mythology, patron goddesses of the arts, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Originally only three, they were later considered as nine. Calliope was the Muse of epic poetry and eloquence; Euterpe, of music or of lyric poetry; Erato, of the poetry of love; Polyhymnia (or... Read more |
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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 |
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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 |
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imagists
imagists group of English and American poets writing from 1909 to about 1917, who were united by their revolt against the exuberant imagery and diffuse sentimentality of 19th-century poetry. Influenced by classicism, by Chinese and Japanese poetry, and by the French symbolists , the imagists... Read more |
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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 |
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Li Qingzhao
Li Qingzhao Highly educated for her time, Chinese poet Li Qingzhao (1084–c. 1150) wrote lyrical poetry with such emotional intensity and creativity of voice and meter that she was regarded as China's greatest female poet. In the waning days of the Northern Song Dynasty in the... Read more |
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eglantine
eglantine , name for various kinds of rose (family Rosaceae), chiefly sweetbrier , and for a honeysuckle (family Caprifoliaceae). The name eglantine has been much used in English poetry.... Read more |
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Horace Gregory
Horace Gregory 1898-1982, American poet and critic, b. Milwaukee, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1923. His poetry is noted for its dramatic structure and penetrating insights into the harshness of contemporary life. Among his volumes of poetry are Chelsea Rooming House (1930), Poems, 1930-1940 ... Read more |
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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich 1929-, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Radcliffe, 1951. Since the 1970s her volumes of exquisitely wrought verse have increasingly reflected feminist and lesbian themes. Among her volumes of poetry are A Change of World (1951), Diving into the Wreck (1973), The Dream of a... Read more |
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