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Their value is increased by the treatise on The Nature and Elements of Poetry (Boston, 1892) a work of great critical insight as well as technical knowledge. [5] Stedman edited, with Ellen M. Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature (eleven volumes, 1888–90); and, with George E. Woodberry, the Works of Edgar Allan Poe (ten
The Library of Congress produces a guide to American poetry inspired by the 9/11 attacks, including anthologies and books dedicated to the subject. [32] [33] Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the poet laureate of the United States for three terms. [34] No other poet has been so honored.
Named Poetry Consultant (now U.S. Poet Laureate) of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952, Aiken earned numerous prestigious writing honors, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for Selected Poems, the 1954 National Book Award for Collected Poems, [14] the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in ...
Field's narrative poem "World War II" is part of the Poets of World War II anthology, published by the Library of America and edited by Harvey Shapiro. In 2005, the University of Wisconsin Press published his literary memoirs The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era , the title of which ...
In 1910, the Poetry Society of America held its first official meeting in the National Arts Club in Manhattan, which is still home to the organization today. Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, a founding member and Secretary of the PSA, documented the founding of the Poetry Society of America in her autobiography My House of Life writing "It was not, however, to be an organization in the formal sense ...
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. [1] (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
Alfred Kreymborg (1928) The Pamphlet Poets; Manhattan Men: Poems and Epitaphs (1929) poems; Body and Stone: A Song Cycle (1929) Our Singing Strength, An Outline of American Poetry, 1620 - 1930 (1929) also later in 1934; An Anthology of American Poetry Lyric: America 1630–1930 (1930) anthology, later editions are supplemented; Prologue in Hell ...
Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor.. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist, won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006.