]PARA UPAR@ ` yTEXT ` kBogan, Louise1897╨1970poet and professorBorn in Livermore Falls, Maine, on August 11, 1897, Louise Bogan attended Mount St. Mary╒s Academy in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Boston Girls╒ Latin School. She left Boston University after a year, in 1916, to marry. Four years later she was left a widow with a child. Her poems were first published in the New Republic, and in 1923 her first volume appeared under the title Body of This Death. She continued to contribute both verse and criticism to the New Republic, the Nation, the New Yorker, Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals while publishing Dark Summer, 1929, The Sleeping Fury, 1937, and Poems and New Poems, 1941. Her verse was frequently compared with that of such Metaphysical poets as George Herbert and Henry Vaughan in its exploration of intensely personal experience and its compressed diction and imagery, and she was accounted one of the major American poets of her time. Poetry magazine awarded her its John Reed Memorial Prize in 1930 and the Helen Haire Levinson Prize in 1938, and in 1933 and 1937 she was given Guggenheim fellowships. In 1944 she was a fellow in American letters at the Library of Congress, and in 1945╨1946 she held the chair of poetry there. Achievement in American Poetry, 1900╨1950, 1951, was a major critical survey. Her Collected Poems, 1954, won a share of the Bollingen Prize, and Selected Criticism, 1955, was a further major contribution in that area. She won a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 1959 and a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1967. In 1968 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a frequent lecturer or visiting professor at colleges and universities, including the University of Washington in 1948, the University of Chicago in 1949, and Brandeis University in 1964╨1965. Her later works included The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923╨1968, 1968, and A Poet╒s Alphabet, 1970, and translations of The Journal of Jules Renard, 1964, and of Goethe╒s Elective Affinities, 1964, and The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1971. She died on February 4, 1970, in New York City. ║styl ` / ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ , !I E 5¬ F !I l !I x !I ░ !I ┬ !I !I !I !I !I !I ) !I + !I 1 !I 3 !I ; !I < !I C !I l !I w !I !I É !I £ !I » !I ─ 5¬ ┼ !I ╦ !I φ !I !I @ !I O !I !I æ !I h !I ï !I ù !I ¿ !I ─ !I ▀ !I ≈ !I
