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The Beauty of the Husband won Carson the T. S. Eliot Prize on her third consecutive nomination in 2001, [5] making her the first woman to be awarded this honour. [6] That same year, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, [7] and the Quebec Writers' Federation Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. [8]
The Beauty of the Husband, Decreation, Red Doc>, and Float [387] Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry Presented by the League of Canadian Poets: Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep) Lecture presented as part of the Anne Szumigalski lecture series (2004) [388] The White Review Anthology Edited by Ben Eastham and Jacques Testard: 2017
2001: T. S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband [31] 2001: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry for The Beauty of the Husband [86] 2001: QWF Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry for The Beauty of the Husband [19] 2010: PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for An Oresteia [54] 2012: Criticos Prize (London Hellenic Prize) for Antigonick ...
Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]
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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]
[6] Thomas Hardy said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. [58] The poet Richard Wilbur asserted that Millay "wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." [59] [60] Nancy Milford published a biography of the poet in 2001, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay.
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.