Hall, Donald [Andrew]
Hall, Donald [Andrew]( 1928– ),Connecticut-born poet, educated at Harvard and Oxford, where his Exiles won the Newdigate Prize (1952). He was a professor at Michigan (1957–77). His early poetry in Exiles and Marriages (1955) was marked by traditional meters and rhythms and formalism as well as ironic wit. The Dark Houses (1958), poems about suburban and small-town life, is freer and more emotional. This change is further developed in later works, which are more subjective and rich in sensuous imagery: The Alligator Bride (1969), new poems and revised earlier ones; A Roof of Tiger Lilies (1964); The Yellow Room (1971), about a romance; The Town of Hill (1975), a small collection; A Blue Wing Tilts at the Edge of the Sea (1975); Kicking the Leaves (1978); The Toy Bone (1979); The Happy Man (1986); and The One Day (1988), a long poem of a man and woman...
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