The Last Question | The Various Influences and Styles of Parker's Poetry
In the following excerpt, Grant examines the
various influences on and styles of Parker’s poetry.
Parker’s scathing wit was likely sharpened by the two years she spent under pressure at Vogue forced to dream up witty lines to decorate the years’ changing fashions. But the epigrammatic clarity and precision of her style was forged, as Arthur Kinney has shown, from her study and imitation of classical Latin poets begun at Miss Dana’s school and perfected by her reading of classical imitators among her contemporaries. Roman wit suffuses her own, abundantly demonstrated in her poetry. From Catullus, by way of Housman, she learned to express the disappointment of love in deceptively...
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