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Middle 20th Century

5 poetas, 1908 – 1979

  1. Theodore Roethke

    1908 – 1963

    Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan, to Otto Roethke and Helen Huebner Roethke, on May 25, 1908. His father, Otto Roethke was an immigrant from Germany who owned a large local greenhouse. In 1913 Theodore was sent to John Moore School. Young Roethke spent many hours in the…

  2. Elizabeth Bishop

    1911 – 1979

    Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester (Massachusetts) in 1911, and her early childhood was marked by a succession of tragic events. Her father, William Thomas Bishop, who worked as an executive for the family construction business, died only eight months after her birth. After…

  3. Randall Jarrell

    1914 – 1965

    Talking about Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell has expressed that "to show Whitman for what he is one does not need to praise or explain or argue, one needs simply to quote. He himself said, 'I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, / We convince by our…

  4. John Berryman

    1914 – 1972

    John Berryman (1914-1972) was an inexhaustible style and form experimentalist. Touched by a special gift for creative writing, he achieved to project a sophisticated and complex personality into his poetry. He shared with his fellow poets from the so called 'Middle Generation' a…

  5. Robert Lowell

    1917 – 1977

    Robert Lowell may be considered as the poet who raised the confessional I from the burial of dead, in reference both to the Second World War and Eliot's Waste Land. From Lowell's Life Studies on - or should we say Death Studies - what happens indoors becomes the main object of…