Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)

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As a child, Adrienne Rich was encouraged to write poetry by her father. At Radcliffe College, she continued to study the formal craft of poetry as practiced and taught by male teachers. In 1951, Rich’s first volume of poetry, A Change of World, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Rich was praised as a fine poet and as a modest young woman who respected her elders. The poems in her first two collections are traditional in form, modeled on the male poets Rich studied.

At twenty-four, Rich married a Harvard professor. She had three...

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• Adrienne Rich (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Adrienne Rich (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Adrienne Rich (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
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• Adrienne Rich (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))

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• Arts of the Possible (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Poetry)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Women’s Literature)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Magill Book Reviews)
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry (Women’s Literature)
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Women’s Literature)
• Diving into the Wreck (Masterplots Classics)
• Diving into the Wreck (Poetry)
• Diving into the Wreck (Literary Places)
• Dream of a Common Language, The (Identities and Issues)
• For a Sister (Poetry)
• Fox (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Living in Sin (Poetry)
• Of Woman Born (Women’s Literature)
• On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (Women’s Literature)
• Poetry of Adrienne Rich (Identities and Issues)
• Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Poetry)
• Time’s Power (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Trying to Talk with a Man (Poetry)
• Your Native Land, Your Life (Magill Book Reviews)
• English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)