W.d. snodgrass poems
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"I'm inclined to think that reading silently cannot really approximate the poem's power. For me it is an aural experience: no music, no poem." — W. D. Snodgrass
Poet William DeWitt (W. D.) Snodgrass was born on January 5, 1926, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania to United Presbyterian parents: Bruce DeWitt, an accountant, and Jesse Helen (Murchie) Snodgrass. They lived in Wilkinsburg, but drove to Beaver Falls for his birth since his grandfather was a doctor in the town. Eventually the family moved back to Beaver Falls and Snodgrass graduated from the local high school in 1943.
He attended Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, from 1943 to 1944, and then served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. After his service in the Navy, Snodgrass attended the University of Iowa between 1946 and 1947 and studied with Robert Lowell, a well-known confessional poet. While at the University of Iowa, Snodgrass received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949, a Master of Arts degree in 1951, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1953. He had also attended a few Quaker meetings while a gradu
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W. D. Snodgrass
American poet
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| Born | William De Witt Snodgrass (1926-01-05)January 5, 1926 Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | January 13, 2009(2009-01-13) (aged 83) Erieville, New York, US |
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| Occupation | Poet, professor |
| Education | Geneva College University of Iowa (BA, MA, MFA) |
| Literary movement | Confessional poetry |
| Notable works | Heart's Needle |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1960) |
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| Children | 2 |
William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Life
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W. D. Snodgrass
William De Witt Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1926. He attended Geneva College and then served in the United States Navy until 1946. He then attended the State University of Iowa, where he earned his MFA in 1953. His early work was compared to the work of Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell, both of which were his teachers.
His first collection of poetry, Heart's Needle, was published in 1959 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Since then, he has published numerous books of poetry, including Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2006); The Führer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (1995); Each in His Season (1993); Selected Poems, 1957-1987; The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress (1977), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and produced by Wynn Handman for The American Place Theatre; and After Experience (1968).
He is often credited as being one of the founding members of the "confessional" movement, though he did not consider his poetry as fitting in
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