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The Silver Swan
Compilation of poetry
- GenresPoetry
217 pages, Library Binding
First published June 1, 1966
About the author
Horace Gregory
71 books7 followersHorace Gregory was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in 1923, he was the author of eight books of poems, and a memoir in 1971. He married poet and editor Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982), in 1925.
His collected essays were published in 1973. He also wrote book reviews that were published in the New York Times. His work appeared in The New Yorker Contemporary Poetry, The Wisconsin literary magazine, and Poetry Magazine.
His poetry is known for its dramatic structure and deep insights into contemporary life's harshness.
Gregory was a professor of English at Sarah Lawrence College, from 1934 to 1960.
During the end of his life, Gregory and his wife were residents of Palisades, Rockland County, New York.
His papers are at Syracuse University
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in 1923, he was the author of eight books of poems, and a memoir in 1971. He married poet and editor Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982), in 1925.
His collected essays were published in 1973. He also wrote book reviews that were published in the New York Times. His work appeared in The New Yorker Contemporary Poetry, The Wisconsin literary magazine, and Poetry Magazine.
His poetry is known for its dramatic structure and deep insights into contemporary life's harshness.
Gregory was a professor of English at Sarah Lawrence College, from 1934 to 1960.
During the end of his life, Gregory and his wife were residents of Palisades, Rockland County, New York.
His papers are at Syracuse University
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August 20, 2008
Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska
This is an excellent brief anthology of poetry with no particular criteria besides timeless lyricism.
"In all the elegies, ballads, and lyric songs included in this collection, there is an elusive element to haunt the imagination- to leave a question, a sense of magic , a sense of mystery in all things---- "; Ex-Lib; Wood engravings by Diana Bloomfield ; 8vo; 221 pages.
Isaac Rosenberg, e.e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, William Butler yeats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, W. H. Auden, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Muir, Thomas Hardy, William Blake, Theodore Weise, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, and many more.
This is an excellent brief anthology of poetry with no particular criteria besides timeless lyricism.
"In all the elegies, ballads, and lyric songs included in this collection, there is an elusive element to haunt the imagination- to leave a question, a sense of magic , a sense of mystery in all things---- "; Ex-Lib; Wood engravings by Diana Bloomfield ; 8vo; 221 pages.
Isaac Rosenberg, e.e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, William Butler yeats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, W. H. Auden, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Muir, Thomas Hardy, William Blake, Theodore Weise, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, and many more.
May 4, 2021
Not a bad collection of poems, a bit too old fashioned for me. But I still appreciate their beauty.
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