Louise Bogan, nata Louise Marie Bogan [1], ( Livermore Falls , città della Contea di Androscoggin, Maine, 11 agosto 1897 – New York, 4 febbraio 1970 ), è stata una poetessa e critica letteraria statunitense . Fu il quarto "Poeta laureato consulente in poesia della Biblioteca del Congresso" [2].
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] Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker.
- August 11, 1897, Livermore Falls, Maine, United States
Louise Bogan is one of the most accomplished American poet-critics of the mid-20th century. Her subtle, restrained style was partially influenced by writers such as Rilke and Henry James, and partially by the English metaphysical poets such as George Herbert, John Donne, and Henry Vaughan, though…
Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls, Maine, on August 11, 1897. She attended Boston Girls’ Latin School and spent one year at Boston University. She married in 1916 and was widowed in 1920. In 1925, she married her second husband, the poet and editor Raymond Holden, whom she divorced in 1937.
The Poets Louise Bogan (1897-1970) About the Poet Acclaimed as reviewer, autobiographer, and poet, Louise Bogan earned a place among the female voices of the mid-twentieth century.
BOGAN, Louise . Scrittrice americana, nata a Livermore Falls, Maine, l'11 agosto 1897.