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An Argument on Women Better Fitted Than Men to Be Poets (1423 words, 6 pages)

Arent Women Better Fitted than Men to be Poets?The wonder with a woman working in the arts is the same as thatwith a performing dog, not that she can do it well or ill but that she can do it atall--the world may have outgrown such colossal exhibitions of masculine ... Read More

An Argument in Favor of the Influence of Black Poets on American Literature (257 words, 2 pages)

My sense, as a black American poet, that the American languageand its various idioms belong to practitioners hasn't changed. My hope for the nextcentury is that black and minority children will be given computers, e-mail, websites, andparaphernalia on the internet and elsewhere TO PLAY dividends will come from thatabsorption, some ... Read More

An Analysis of the Work the Allegory of a Poets Life by Charles Olson (1079 words, 6 pages)

Tom ClarkThe fusion of lyric vision with "primary images" in aburst of poetry Olson produced that spring owed a certain debt to Robert Duncan's visit,if only in his picking up effectively on certain of the visiting instructors keyinsistences. Along with the euphoric fecundity of new love and of the Southern ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Bloodaxe Anthology of Women Poets by Levertov (765 words, 3 pages)

Joan F. HalliseyLevertov recalled in her 1986 interview for Sojourners ("Invocationsof Humanity Denise Levertovs Poetry of Emotion and Belief") what she hadalso expressed in the introduction to her section in the Bloodaxe Anthology of WomenPoets (Newcastle upon Tyne Bloodaxe Press, 1985) that part of her was an"outsider" Among Jews a ... Read More

An Analysis of a Poet’s Life in Sympathy (834 words, 4 pages)

Jean Wagner"Sympathy" is a heartfelt cry of a poet who finds himself imprisoned amidtraditions and prejudices he feels powerless to destroy . . . . from Black Poets of the United States, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1973. Copyright 1973 by the Board ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of And As A Poet by Sylvia Plath (4476 words, 20 pages)

Ellin Sarot"And as a poet," Sylvia Plath was asked by an interviewer inOctober 1962, "do you have a great and keen sense of the historic?""I am not a historian," Plath replied, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literature by an American Poet Gary Snyder (5499 words, 25 pages)

Nick Selby Forthe American poet Gary Snyder the poem is a work-place. The idea of work, I shall arguethroughout this paper, is central to Snyder's ecological poetics because it allows him tothrow explicit attention on to the act of writing the land'. This is clear from hiswell- known environmental concerns, ... Read More

A Biography of Rexroth Kenneth, an American Poet (1238 words, 6 pages)

Caren Irr Rexroth, Kenneth(22 Dec. 1905- 6 June 1982), poet and translator, was born Kenneth Charles Marion Rexrothin South Bend, Indiana, the son of Charles Rexroth, a pharmaceuticals salesman, and DeliaReed. Owing to Charles's rocky career, the family moved frequently throughout the northernmidwest until Delia died in 1916 and Charles ... Read More

An Interview with Adrienne Rich an American Poet (4996 words, 20 pages)

"Adrienne Rich 'I happen tothink poetry makes a huge difference.'"By Matthew RothschildAdrienne Rich is one of the leading American poets of our century. Forforty years, her distinguished writings have brought accolades, including the NationalBook Award, the Fellowship of American Poets, and the Poets Prize. But as she putsit in her ... Read More

A Biography of Sadakichi Hartmann a Poet, Art Critic, and Lecturer (1472 words, 6 pages)

"Sadakichi Hartmann, Art Critic"by Vance ThompsonParis Herald, September, 1906One of the strangest and most original men of letters of the day-- in the United States at all events -- is Sadakichi Hartmann, the poet, art critic, andlecturer. He was born in the land of wistarias and chrysanthemums, and he sees ... Read More

An Analysis of Poet’s Choice a Sample of the Hass’s Syndicated Poet’s Choice Column (657 words, 4 pages)

Ed. Note This is a small sample of the Hass's syndicated"Poet's Choice" column.A Poem by Horace"Poet's Choice," March 29, 1998It's spring. And here's a chance to print a song of the season that comes from a veryold, sunlit, Mediterranean sanity. Also a chance to celebrate a remarkable recent book.One of ... Read More

A Biography of Wendy Rose a Native American Poet (1025 words, 4 pages)

John RocheWendy Rose has, for the past quarter century, been one of theleading voices of a resurgent Native American poetry. A writer who is also a professionalartist, a "spy" in the camp of the anthropologists, and a chronicler of thesufferings of displaced peoples and biracial outcasts worldwide, she lives in ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Six Poets at the Six Gallery (1763 words, 7 pages)

Six poets at the Six Gallery. Kenneth Rexroth, M.C. Remarkable collection of angels all gathered at once in the same spot. Wine, music, dancing girls, serious poetry, free satori. Small collection for wine and postcards. Charming event. --- from postcard printed by Allen Ginsberg to publicize 1955 Six Gallery ReadingThe ... Read More

A Biography of James Dickey a Poet (419 words, 2 pages)

Richard StullDickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. After serving as a pilot inthe Second World War, he attended Vanderbilt University. Having earned an MA in 1950,Dickey returned to military duty in the Korean War, serving with the US Air Force. Uponreturn to civilian life Dickey taught at Rice University in ... Read More

A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps a Poet (2636 words, 11 pages)

Charles L. JamesBorn in Alexandria, Louisiana, the first child of a RomanCatholic bricklayer and a Methodist schoolteacher, Arna Wendell Bontemps grew up inCalifornia and graduated from Pacific Union College. After college he accepted a teachingposition in Harlem at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, and in 1926 and 1927 won ... Read More

A Biography of Robert Penn Warren a Poet (1918 words, 8 pages)

Charles BohnerWARREN, Robert Penn (24 Apr. 1905-15 Sept. 1989), author andeducator, was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, the son of Robert Franklin Warren, a businessman,and Anna Ruth Penn, a schoolteacher. Throughout Warren's childhood on a Kentucky tobaccofarm he heard tales of the Civil War from his grandfathers, both of whom had ... Read More

A Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson a Poet (2168 words, 9 pages)

Bill PeschelROBINSON, Edwin Arlington (22 Dec. 1869-6 Apr. 1935), poet, wasborn in Head Tide, Maine, the son of Edward Robinson, a timber merchant and civic leader,and Mary Elizabeth Palmer. Shortly after his birth the family moved to nearby Gardiner,where he grew up the town later provided the model for a ... Read More

A Biography of Dudley Randall a Poet, Publisher, Editor and Founder of Broadside Press (1505 words, 8 pages)

Naomi Long MadgettPoet,publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920. His first published poem appearedin the Detroit Free Press when he was thirteen. His early reading included Englishpoets from whom he learned form. He was later ... Read More

A Biography of Charles Olson a Poet (3462 words, 15 pages)

Nicholas EverettOlson, Charles (1910-70), was born and raised in Worcester,Massachusetts, and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he studied Americancivilization. During the Second World War he worked for the Democratic Party and for theOffice of War information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. His firsttwo books, Call ... Read More

A Biography of James Merrill a Poet (1208 words, 5 pages)

Ann T. Keene Merrill, James (3 Mar. 1926-6 Feb. 1995), poet, was born in New York City to CharlesEdward Merrill, a stockbroker, and Helen Ingram Merrill, who published a small newspaper.The elder Merrill, who had two children from a previous marriage, was a founder of andsenior partner in the brokerage ... Read More

A Look at the Life of Merwin the Poet (509 words, 3 pages)

Jay PariniMerwin was born in New York City and grew up in Union City, NewJersey, and Scranton, Pennsylvania. His father was a Presbyterian minister. 'I startedwriting hymns for my father as soon as I could write at all', Merwin has said. He attendedPrinceton University, where he studied writing with John ... Read More

A Biography of Edwin Markham a Poet (1588 words, 7 pages)

William R. NashMarkham was born Charles Edwin Anson Markham in Oregon City inthe Oregon Territory, the son of Samuel Barzillai Markham and Elizabeth Winchell, arancher. Shortly after Markhams birth, his parents divorced, and he remained withhis mother. In 1856 they moved to a ranch near Suisun, California, where Markham learnedto ... Read More

An Analysis of the Life and Poems of Audre Lorde an American Poet (3115 words, 13 pages)

Beverly Threatt Kulii (BK), Ann E. Reuman (AR), and Ann Trapasso (AT)American writer Audre Lorde names herself as "a blackfeminist lesbian mother poet" because her identity is based on the relationship ofmany divergent perspectives once perceived as incompatible. Thematically, she expresses orexplores pride, love, anger, fear, racial and sexual oppression, ... Read More

A Biography of Louise Bogan a Poet (1165 words, 5 pages)

Wendy HirschBoganwas born Louise Marie Bogan in Livermore Falls, Maine, the daughter of Daniel JosephBogan, a superintendent in a paper mill, and Mary Helen Murphy Shields. She grew up invarious mill towns in the Northeast, moving often with her parents and brother. Herparents' marriage was volatile, and her mother's affairs ... Read More

A Biography of Stanley Kunitz, an American Poet (331 words, 2 pages)

Jay PariniKunitz was born inWorcester, Massachusetts, where he grew up hestudied at Harvard College, receiving a BA in 1926 and an MA in 1927. He then moved to NewYork, taking a job with the H. W. Wilson company as an editor of the Wilson LibraryBulletin he also began at this ... Read More

A Biography of Galway Kinnell a Poet (278 words, 2 pages)

Richard GrayKinnell, Galway (1927- ), was born in Providence, Rhode island,and studied at Princeton and the University of Rochester. He served in the United StatesNavy and then visited Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship. Returning to the United States, heworked for the Congress on Racial Equality and then travelled widely in ... Read More

A Biography of Georgia Douglas Johnson an American Poet (900 words, 4 pages)

Maureen HoneyBorn in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Douglas Johnson made her way toWashington, D.C., where she lived for over fifty years at 1461 S Street NW, site of one ofthe greatest literary salons of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was the most famous womanpoet of that literary movement, publishing four volumes of ... Read More

A Biography of Langston Hughes a Poet (1544 words, 7 pages)

Arnold RampersadBorn in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes grew up mainlyin Lawrence, Kansas, but also lived in Illinois, Ohio, and Mexico.By the time Hughes enrolled at Columbia University in New York, he had already launchedhis literary career with his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in the Crisis,edited by ... Read More

A Biography of Carl Sadakichi Hartmann a Poet (2762 words, 11 pages)

George KnoxSon of a multi-lingual and affluent German trader and a Japanesemother, Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born in about 1867 on the island of Desima in Nagasakiharbor. After his mother, Osada, died in childbirth, Sadakichi and an elder brother, Taru,were taken to Hamburg, Germany, where they were brought up in ... Read More

A Biography of Gwendolyn Bennett a Poet (1141 words, 5 pages)

Sandra Y. GovanPoet, short-story writer, columnist, journalist, illustrator,graphic artist, arts educator, teacher and administrator on the New York City WorksProgress Administration Federal Arts Project (1935-1941). Gwendolyn Bennett was one of themost versatile figures to participate actively in both the 1920s Black American artsmovement, which was designated the Harlem Renaissance, and ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013