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Flashcards by Yleana Alonzo, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Yleana Alonzo
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| Ezra Pound (1885-1972) | Ezra Pound was one of the most influential American poets of this century. Pound furthered Imagism in letters, essays, and an anthology. His life-work was The Cantos, which he wrote and published until his death. |
| T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) | Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, He received the best education of any major American writer of his generation. One of the most respected poets of his day, his modernist, seemingly illogical or abstract iconoclastic poetry had revolutionary impact. He also wrote influential essays and dramas, and championed the importance of literary and social traditions for the modern poet. |
| Robert Frost (1874-1963) | Robert Lee Frost was born in California but raised on a farm in the northeastern United States. He wrote of traditional farm life, appealing to a nostalgia for the old ways. His subjects are universal — apple picking, stone walls, fences, country roads. Frost’s approach was lucid and accessible: He rarely employed pedantic allusions or ellipses. |
| Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) | Born in Pennsylvania, Wallace Stevens was educated at Harvard College and New York University Law School. His life is remarkable for its compartmentalization: His associates in the insurance company did not know that he was a major poet. Stevens’s poetry dwells upon themes of the imagination, the necessity for aesthetic form and the belief that the order of art corresponds with an order in nature. His vocabulary is rich and various: He paints lush tropical scenes but also manages dry, humorous, and ironic vignettes. |
| William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) | William Carlos Williams was a practicing pediatrician throughout his life; he delivered over 2,000 babies and wrote poems on his prescription pads. His sympathy for ordinary working people, children, and everyday events in modern urban settings make his poetry attractive and accessible. “The Red Wheelbarrow” (1923), like a Dutch still life, finds interest and beauty in everyday objects. |
| Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) | Robinson Jeffers lived in California and wrote of the Spanish rancheros and Indians and their mixed traditions, and of the haunting beauty of the land. He is best known for his tragic narratives such as Tamar (1924), Roan Stallion (1925), The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1924) — a recreation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon — and Medea (1946), a re-creation of the tragedy by Euripides. |
| Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) | Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e.e. cummings, wrote attractive, innovative verse distinguished for its humor, grace, celebration of love and eroticism, and experimentation with punctuation and visual format on the page. |
| Hart Crane (1899-1932) | Hart Crane was a tormented young poet who committed suicide at age 33 by leaping into the sea. He left striking poems, including an epic, The Bridge (1930), which was inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge, in which he ambitiously attempted to review the American cultural experience and recast it in affirmative terms. His luscious, overheated style works best in short poems such as “Voyages” (1923, 1926) and “At Melville’s Tomb” (1926). |
| Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | Marianne Moore once wrote that poems were “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” Her poems are conversational, yet elaborate and subtle in their syllabic versification, drawing upon extremely precise description and historical and scientific fact. A “poet’s poet,” she influenced such later poets as her young friend Elizabeth Bishop. |
| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | One of many talented poets of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Hughes published numerous black anthologies and began black theater groups in Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as New York City. He embraced African-American jazz rhythms and was one of the first black writers to attempt to make a profitable career out of his writing. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) | Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s life resembles a fairy tale. Fitzgerald enlisted in the U.S. Army and fell in love with a rich and beautiful girl. She broke off their engagement because he was relatively poor. Fitzgerald’s secure place in American literature rests primarily on his novel The Great Gatsby (1925), a brilliantly written, economically structured story about the American dream of the self-made man. |
| Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | Few writers have lived as colorfully as Ernest Hemingway, whose career could have come out of one of his adventurous novels. After his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) brought him fame, he covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the fighting in China in the 1940s. |
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