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15 gen 2009 · W. D. Snodgrass, who found the stuff of poetry in the raw material of his emotional life and from it helped forge a bold, self-analytical poetic style in postwar America, winning a Pulitzer Prize ...
Heart’s Needle. When he would not return to fine garments and good food, to his houses and his people, Loingseachan told him, “Your father is dead.” “I’m sorry to hear it,” he said. “Your mother is dead,” said the lad. “All pity for me has gone out of the world.” “Your sister, too, is dead.” “The mild sun rests on ...
William De Witt Snodgrass nació en Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, cerca de Pittsburgh, y fue educado en el Geneva College. Sus estudios fueron interrumpidos, cuando se enlistó en la Marina durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras la desmovilización, Snodgrass retomó sus estudios, pero se transfirió a la Universidad de Iowa y, eventualmente, se ...
W. D. Snodgrass. , The Art of Poetry No. 68. Interviewed by Alexandra Eyle. Issue 130, Spring 1994. W. D. Snodgrass received one of his profession’s highest honors early on in his career when he won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, in 1960, for his first book of poems, Heart’s Needle. Yet the winning of this coveted prize brought numerous ...
Biography. Along with Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, William DeWitt Snodgrass is one of the most important of the so-called confessional poets who heavily influenced American poetry in the 1960 ...
April Inventory. By W. D. Snodgrass. The green catalpa tree has turned. All white; the cherry blooms once more. In one whole year I haven’t learned. A blessed thing they pay you for. The blossoms snow down in my hair; The trees and I will soon be bare. The trees have more than I to spare.
Born in 1926, W. D. Snodgrass was best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry book, Heart's Needle (1959), which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960. Snodgrass was a pioneer in confessional poetry. He wrote a great deal of poetry, prose, anthology, and drama. He had been married four times and had three children.
