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Modern Poetry
Explorations of poets of the twentieth century, and some of their precursors
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens is not, at first glance, the kind of person normally associated with poetry. A corporate executive — he was chief counsel for one of America’s largest insurance companies — he fashioned a poetry that seems, at first, quite difficult and even obscure. But that is only at first...
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Rainier Maria Rilke
Rainier Maria Rilke lived a life totally dedicated to poetry and the world of art. His poems investigate the realm of the esthetic. This subject does not, to some readers (myself among them) by itself seem like the most fertile ground to explore: life, after all, offers us more than poetry. And…
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Seamus Heaney
Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995, Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet of enormous range. His poetry takes up difficult themes: Heaney penetrates to the heart what it is to live in the later twentieth century. But he does so in a voice which is always lyrical and always –surprisingly — accessible....
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T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis and educated in the United States, but once he went to Britain to do graduate work in philosophy he remained in that country for the rest of his adult life. During the first half of the twentieth century he was widely regarded — both in the...
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Constantin P. Cavafy
The poet Constantin Cavafy, who though he lived in Alexandria, Egypt was of Greek background and wrote in modern Greek, is one of the centrally important poets of the first years of the twentieth century. He is especially important for his extensive use demotic Greek — the language of not only…
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire, the great French poet of the mid nineteenth century whose powerful writing ushered in a era of symbolism, is one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century. Not only a poet of stunning imagery and extraordinary musicality, he was also one of the first to herald that...
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Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop, born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, had a difficult childhood: her father died when she was very young, and while still in early childhood her mother was permanently hospitalized in a sanitarium. She spent her childhood years living with her grandparents in Nova Scotia…
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Yehuda Amichai
Born in Germany, Yehuda Amichai emigrated to Israel when he was twelve. One of the great love poets of modern times, his poems are at once humorous and filled with grief. It is one of Amichai’s richest accomplishments that he, by writing in the modern Hebrew spoken on the streets and in the shops...
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