Poets

Question 1

Emily Dickinson

Answer 1

1830-1886

Lived a life of recluse, published after her death mostly (1800ish poems)

Short poems, dashes odd punctuation

I dwell in Possibility

Tell the truth but tell it slant

The Brain within it’s Groove

Question 2

Walt Whitman

Answer 2

1819-1892

Opposed slavery, different take on sexuality, beleived in a democratic america of the common people, big part of American ideology

Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps(about the civil war)

Question 3

William Carlos Williams

Answer 3

1883-1963

Modernist, Imagist (later rejected it), Doctor by profession, won a politzer prize, friend of Ezra Pound/Marcel Duchamp/Allen Ginsberg

Smell!, Danse Russe, Lines, Between Walls, This Is Just to Say, Red Wheelbarrow, The rose is obsolete, Portrait of a Lady

Question 4

Allen Ginsberg

Answer 4

1926-1997

Beat Poet, budist, gay, prolific American poet, counter culture, Bohemiem lifestyle, San Francisco ties, liked Whitman, mentored by Williams Carlos Williams, make the private world public -> frankness, ‘carlo marcs’ in On The Road

A Supermarket in California, Howl

Question 5

Jack Kerouac

Answer 5

1922-1969

Connected with Allen Ginsbery and the beat generation,

On the Road

Question 6

Lorine Niedecker

Answer 6

1903-1970

Affiliated with Objectivist(treat the poem as an object) poetry aong with Pound and Williams

You are my friend

Question 7

Cid Corman

Answer 7

1924-2004

Editor of Origin, associated with Objectivists

It isnt for want

Question 8

Rae Armantrout

Answer 8

1947- present

Language Poet, Dickinson tradition

The Way

Question 9

H.D.

Answer 9

1886-1961

Original Imagist along with Pound, early icon for the feminist movement, bisexual

Sea Rose, Sea Poppies

Question 10

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Answer 10

1844-1889

Strayed from conventional poetic forms in his time setting up for later poetic movements

Fell in love with dude but could never express it

Sprung rhyme

Question 11

Ezra Pound

Answer 11

1885-1972

Founder of Imagism, literary critic in his early time, philosophy major, helped brin T.S. Eliot/Robert Frost to fame

Promoted facism in Italy during WW2, then put in prison for several years and friends helped release him.

Works: The Cantos, In a Station of the Metro, The Encounter

Question 12

Marcel Duchamp

Answer 12

1887-1967

Not poet, but predominate artist

Works: Nude Descending a Staircase, Fountain(urinal)

Question 13

Gertrude Stein

Answer 13

1874-1946

Set up a house in Paris where whe collected art/writing and connected with like minded folks

Big in with the modernism

Lesbian writings

Portrait by/of Picasso

Works: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Tender Buttons

Question 14

Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven

Answer 14

1874-1927

The dada queen, up in the arts scene of new york, influenced Fountain

Works: A Dozen Cocktails–Please

Question 15

Tristan Tzara

Answer 15

1896-1963

Founder of dada, Romanian

Works: How to make a dadaist poem