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Just browsing around and found a few poetry collections at this site - click on the menus for more ....
Here is a little taste of one article -
Regarding early influences, Hall recalls discovering Edgar Allan Poe as a child, and the time he first met and listened to Robert Frost lecture and read at the Bread Loaf School, which Hall attended one summer at the precocious age of 16. He went on to attend Harvard University, where he studied with Archibald MacLeish; his classmates included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, and Kenneth Koch. He also sat on the board of the Harvard Advocate student journal with Ashbery, Bly, and Koch. A few years later, while studying for a second BA at Oxford University, he served as president of the Oxford Poetry Society, where he helped to establish the famed Fantasy Poets series, in which Hall would help to discover and publish the first books by Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill. He became drinking buddies with George Plimpton, the founding editor of the Paris Review, and would serve as poetry editor of the magazine for eight years. He would also study at Stanford University, under legendary teacher and critic Yvor Winters.
Remembering Donald Hall | Poetry Foundation
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Just browsing around and found a few poetry collections at this site - click on the menus for more ....
Here is a little taste of one article -
Regarding early influences, Hall recalls discovering Edgar Allan Poe as a child, and the time he first met and listened to Robert Frost lecture and read at the Bread Loaf School, which Hall attended one summer at the precocious age of 16. He went on to attend Harvard University, where he studied with Archibald MacLeish; his classmates included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, and Kenneth Koch. He also sat on the board of the Harvard Advocate student journal with Ashbery, Bly, and Koch. A few years later, while studying for a second BA at Oxford University, he served as president of the Oxford Poetry Society, where he helped to establish the famed Fantasy Poets series, in which Hall would help to discover and publish the first books by Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill. He became drinking buddies with George Plimpton, the founding editor of the Paris Review, and would serve as poetry editor of the magazine for eight years. He would also study at Stanford University, under legendary teacher and critic Yvor Winters.
Remembering Donald Hall | Poetry Foundation
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