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Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [2]
Her Poems: A Selection won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as "Companions of the Morass," "For Harvest," "Grapes Making," and "The Runner with the Lots" spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare." [13]
Louise Bogan wrote, "It is [...] strange to see [Eliot] bending the subtle resources of his intelligence in a hopeless cause" (i.e. that of rehabilitating Kipling). [ 9 ] William Rose Benét wrote (ambiguously), "[Eliot] is not a genius, like Kipling, but his is a subtle and interesting mind".
He translated two volumes of poetry of Federico García Lorca, a Spanish homosexual poet assassinated at the beginning of that war and an icon of what Spain lost. Because of controversy surrounding the text of the first of those books, Humphries' correspondence with William Warder Norton , Louise Bogan, and others was published by Daniel ...
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.
In 1962, his first book, Final Solutions, was chosen by a jury of Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Lowell for an award sponsored by the 92nd Street Y, with a $1,500 prize. However, both the association and the publisher rejected the manuscript for several reasons, one of which was that, in their opinion, "matter in one of the poems ...
Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.
Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923–1953 [16] E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923–1954 [16] Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral [16] Anthony Hecht, A Summoning of Stones [16] Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales [16] Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield and Other Poems [16] Weldon Kees, Poems 1947–1954 [16] Archibald MacLeish, Songs for ...