Helen Bevington

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Helen Bevington


Born
in Afton, New York, The United States
April 02, 1906

Died
March 16, 2001

Genre
Poetry, Memoir


Helen Smith Bevington (1906–2001) was an American poet, prose author, and educator.

Bevington was born in Afton, New York. Bevington was reared in Worcester, New York where her father was a Methodist minister. Bevington attended the University of Chicago and earned a degree in philosophy. She proceeded to write a thesis about Thoreau, earning a master’s degree in English from Columbia University.In 1928, she married Merle M. Bevington (1900–64). The couple travelled abroad, returning in 1929 in response to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Both Bevingtons taught English at Duke University starting in the 1940s, Helen retiring in 1976.

In addition to her 12 books of poetry and essays, Bevington's work appeared in The New York Times Book Review, ...more

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Along Came the Witch: A Jou...
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A Book and a Love Affair
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Charley Smith's Girl: A Memoir
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The Journey is Everything: ...
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The Third and Only Way: Ref...
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When Found, Make a Verse of
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A Change of Sky, and Other ...
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The World and the Bo Tree
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The House Was Quiet and the...
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Quotes by Helen Bevington

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”
― Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of
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“It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.”
― Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of
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