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Poet Louise Bogan 1897–1970
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Living, The Body, Growing Old, Time & Brevity, Nature
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
Louise Bogan has been called by some critics the most accomplished woman poet of the twentieth 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 she distanced herself from her intellectually rigorous, metaphysical contemporaries. Some critics have placed her in a . . .
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SUBJECT Living, The Body, Growing Old, Time & Brevity, Nature
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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