Word: poet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be intensely aware of the presence of poets at Harvard," says Laurans, who currently teaches a similar course on versification at Yale. "I would think it very difficult to be a young poet at Harvard without that sense of history. And that may be daunting, but you also might think that if they...
Even with college experience, however, the publication of a volume of poetry--a key stage in a poet's career and a step which signifies a poet's maturity--does not come quickly after graduation, the new poets...
...Lowell called writing verse a way of getting on with life, no matter how painful it was," says Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred, a friend of the late poet. "[Writing] was their health, it was not their sickness. I think the writing was their balance wheel...
According to Eileen Simpson, poet John Berryman's widow, the seeds of the poets' destruction were sown early in their childhood. For example, Berryman's crippling emotional problems were caused in part by his difficult relationship with his mother, she writes in her book Poets in Their Youth...
Simpson says that the late poet never stopped blaming his mother for having an affair with a wealthy man, which he believed helped cause his father's apparent suicide...