Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan (born August 11, 1897 in Livermore Falls , Maine , † February 4, 1970 in New York City ) was an American poet and literary critic .
biography
After attending Boston's Girls' Latin School , she studied at Boston University for a year before marrying her first husband, a soldier, in 1916. After his death in 1920, she began writing and made her literary debut in 1923 with the anthology Body of This Death .
In 1925 she married her second husband, the poet Raymond Holden , from whom she divorced in 1937 . After the publication of a second volume of poetry with the title Dark Summer (1929), she began her work as a literary critic for the magazine The New Yorker in 1931 and practiced this until 1969, the year before her death.
After their divorce appeared first with The Sleeping Fury (1937) and then with Poems and New Poems (1941) two further anthologies, before a collection of their literary reviews appeared for the first time under the title Achievement in American Poetry, 1900–1950 (1951). In 1945 she was the poetry advisor of the Library of Congress United States Poet Laureate and was an official poet of the United States for one year.
In 1955 she published a further collection of literary criticism under the title Selected Criticism: Prose, Poetry and received, alongside Léonie Adams, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry for 1955. Louise Bogan, who was friends with the poet Theodore Roethke , was also between 1955 and 1958 member of the advisory committee for the award of the Guggenheim scholarships .
1968 appeared under the title The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968 another volume of poetry, which among other things contained the poems Train Tune (railway song ) and Three Songs (three songs). In 1952 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Her last volume of poetry was published in 1970 under the title A Poet's Alphabet .
Her correspondence What the Woman Lived: Selected Letters of Louise Bogan, 1920–1970 (1973) and the autobiography Journey Around My Room: The Autobiography of Louise Bogan: A Mosaic (1980) were both published posthumously .
Web links
- Literature by and about Louise Bogan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Louise Bogan in nndb (English)
- Louise Bogan. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Biography (Modern American Poetry)
- Biography (poetryfoundation.org)
Individual evidence
- ^ Two poems in German translation by Johannes Beilharz
- ^ Members: Louise Bogan. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 17, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bogan, Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livermore Falls , Maine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th February 1970 |
| Place of death | New York City |