Genevieve Taggard

Genevieve Taggard 1894-1948, American poet, b. Waitsburg, Wash. Her early years were spent in Hawaii. She returned to the United States in 1914, graduated from the Univ. of California in 1919, and taught English at several women's colleges. Her poetry ranges from the deeply personal poems of her early career to her later verse of social commentary. Among her volumes of poetry are For Eager Lovers (1922), Hawaiian Hilltop (1923), Calling Western Union (1936), Long View (1942), and Collected Poems: 1918-1938 (1938). She compiled several anthologies, including a collection of metaphysical verse.

Taggard, Genevieve (1894–1948), born in Washington, reared in Hawaii, graduated from the University of California (1919), and began her career as a poet with the publication of For Eager Lovers (1922) and Hawaiian Hilltop (1923). Words for the Chisel (1926) shows a greater maturity and a more metaphysical style, and Travelling Standing Still (1928) is a selection from these earlier volumes. Her only prose work, The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930), was followed by further poetry, including Remembering Vaughan in New England (1933), Not Mine To Finish (1934), Calling Western Union (1936), Collected Poems (1938), Long View (1942), and Slow Music (1946). Her literary interests are indicated by her anthologies May Days (1925), a selection of verse from The Masses and The Liberator; and Circumference (1929), a collection of metaphysical verse from Donne to E.E. Cummings. She taught English at Mount Holyoke (1929–31) and Sarah Lawrence (1935–48).