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Everson, William
Everson, William (1912–94), California poet whose career began in part influenced by the pantheism and long poetic line of Jeffers, later celebrated in an elegy, The Poet Is Dead (1964), and a critical study, Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury (1968), as well as later editing and annotation of Jeffers's writings. Everson's early poems (1934–40) were collected in Single Source (1966). During World War II he was a conscientious objector and while at a camp in Waldport, Ore., issued his own War Elegies (1943) and Waldport Poems (1944), the printing a crude forerunner of his distinguished handpress printing of the late 1940s to '70s. Later poems, some of his own printing, include The Residual Years (1948), A Privacy of Speech (1949), Triptych for the Living (1951), The Crooked Lines of God (1959), and The Hazards of Holiness (1962), marked by rhapsodic, mystic, and erotic power as well as by regional imagery, and particularly by his religious exaltation that took him into the Catholic church. From 1951 to 1971 he was a Dominican lay brother, writing under the name of Brother Antoninus further poems collected in The Rose of Solitude (1967), The Last Crusade (1969), and other volumes. In 1974 appeared Man‐Fate, his swan song of religious life. Later works, written while he taught both poetry and printing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, include the long and powerful poem of human love River‐Root (1976), with explicit erotic imagery, and The Marks of Drought: Poems 1972–1979 (1980). On Writing the Waterbirds (1983) collects forewords and afterwords of all periods.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Everson, William." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Everson, William." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-EversonWilliam.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Everson, William." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-EversonWilliam.html |
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Antoninus, Brother
Antoninus, Brother, see Everson, William.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Antoninus, Brother." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Antoninus, Brother." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AntoninusBrother.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Antoninus, Brother." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AntoninusBrother.html |
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