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Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Philip Larkin was born in Coventry, England, on August 9, He attended St. His first book of poetry, The North Ship Fortune , was published in and, though not particularly strong on its own, is notable insofar as certain passages foreshadow the unique sensibility and maturity that characterizes his later work.

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In , Larkin discovered the poetry of Thomas Hardy and became a great admirer of his poetry, learning from Hardy how to make the commonplace and often dreary details of his life the basis for extremely tough, unsparing, and memorable poems. Yeats and Dylan Thomas. Like Hardy, Larkin focused on intense personal emotion but strictly avoided sentimentality or self-pity.

Deeply anti-social and a great lover and published critic of American jazz, Larkin worked as a librarian in the provincial city of Kingston upon Hull, England, where he died on December 2, One of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, Robert Frost was the author of numerous poetry collections, including New Hampshire Henry Holt and Company, Born in San Francisco in , he lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont.

He died in Boston in Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax; he abandoned traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate from to Gertrude Stein was born in Pennsylvania in An important figure among American expatriates in Paris, she was known for her experimental literature, including Tender Buttons Claire Marie, She died in France in