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Late 20th Century

7 poetas, 1921 –

  1. Richard Wilbur

    1921 –

    Richard Wilbur may be considered as that rarity of the era, the cheerful poet. During World War II, his poetic voice emerged from experiences in southern France and Italy, where he first began writing with one purpose: to impose order on a world gone to pieces. He is notable for…

  2. Denise Levertov

    1923 – 1997

    Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, England, in 1923. She received education at home from both her parents and numerous readings. In her own words,

  3. James Merrill

    1926 – 1995

    James Merrill (1926-1995) James Merrill was born in New York City to Charles Edward Merrill and Helen Ingram Merrill. His father was a founding partner in Merrill, Lynch & Company, and so he grew up as part of a social, cultural, and financial elite. He developed a very early…

  4. Nancy Willard

    1936 –

    Nancy Willard's poetry has inexplicably managed to elude the Spanish public. With a markedly vernacular idiom, at its best strikingly resembling of Elizabeth Bishop's solipsistic--and deceptive--triviality, Willard has created a parallel set of mythologies that brings us back to…

  5. Jerome Rothenberg

    1931 –

    As always with Jerome Rothenberg, one finds difficult to choose what seems the most fruitful side in his artistic and professional achievement: poet, anthologist, essayist, translator, teacher, performance artist, ethnographer, founder of literary tendencies like "deep image" or…

  6. Adrienne Rich

    1929 – 2012

    Adrienne Rich’s contribution goes well beyond the field of poetry. That is something that she must be truly proud of, no matter how insufficient she may consider it. Indeed, the world is in need of a great deal more radical socioeconomic politics, and that is why this small (in…

  7. James Dickey

    1923 – 1997

    James Dickey (1923-97) was one of the best-known American poets of the last decades of the 20th century. In addition to writing a large body of poetry, he was also a novelist, critic and teacher. A great deal of his public recognition was due to the enormous success of his first…