Writer. Louise Bogan was born in 1897 in Livermore, Maine and died in 1970 in New York City, New York.She attended private school in New Hampshire after her family moved to Boston. She graduated from Girls’ Latin School in 1915. She completed 1 year at Boston University. She married an Army Officer and accompanied him to Panama and they had a daughter. He died in 1920. Louise and her daughter moved to New York City. She supported herself with a bookstore and at th public library. She was frequent contributor at literary gatherings Greenwich Village and met other writers. She developed a lasting friendship with writer-critic Edund Wilson. Her poetry had appeared in Poetry, Vanity Fair, and The New Republic magazines. Her first book, Body of This Death, was published in 1923. She was married to Raymond Holden from 1925 to 1927. She became a poetry reviewer for the New Yorker magazine from 1931 to 1969. Her essays and reviews are collected in two volumes of criticism. She was awarded the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships for creative writing and spent time in Europe. Her other primary works include “Dark Summer” in 1929, “The Sleeping Fury” in 1937, “Poems and New Poems” in 1941, “Collected Poems: 1923-1953” in 1954, The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968” in 1977, “Criticism: Achievement in American Poetry,” 1900-1950 in 1951, “Selected Criticism: Poetry and Prose” in 1955, and edited “A Poet’s Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation” in 1970.
Writer. Louise Bogan was born in 1897 in Livermore, Maine and died in 1970 in New York City, New York.She attended private school in New Hampshire after her family moved to Boston. She graduated from Girls’ Latin School in 1915. She completed 1 year at Boston University. She married an Army Officer and accompanied him to Panama and they had a daughter. He died in 1920. Louise and her daughter moved to New York City. She supported herself with a bookstore and at th public library. She was frequent contributor at literary gatherings Greenwich Village and met other writers. She developed a lasting friendship with writer-critic Edund Wilson. Her poetry had appeared in Poetry, Vanity Fair, and The New Republic magazines. Her first book, Body of This Death, was published in 1923. She was married to Raymond Holden from 1925 to 1927. She became a poetry reviewer for the New Yorker magazine from 1931 to 1969. Her essays and reviews are collected in two volumes of criticism. She was awarded the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships for creative writing and spent time in Europe. Her other primary works include “Dark Summer” in 1929, “The Sleeping Fury” in 1937, “Poems and New Poems” in 1941, “Collected Poems: 1923-1953” in 1954, The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968” in 1977, “Criticism: Achievement in American Poetry,” 1900-1950 in 1951, “Selected Criticism: Poetry and Prose” in 1955, and edited “A Poet’s Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation” in 1970.
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