Louise Bogan (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Louise Bogan, one of the last of the important formalist poets writing in the United States in the twentieth century, was also a literary critic and translator. Although she earned great honor and respect from other poets, many of whom credit her influence for their own success, her work never reached a wide popular audience during her lifetime; the body of her work is small, and her poems are complex and difficult.
She attended private schools in and around Boston and began writing poetry when she was about fourteen years old. She published her first poems in 1915 in the Boston...
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