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Source: Poetry (June 2012).
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 . . .
Poems by Louise Bogan
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Death, Time & Brevity, Love, Desire
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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