Alice Corbin Henderson, born Alice Corbin on 16 April 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri, and dead on 18 July 1949 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, occupies an important if still insufficiently celebrated place in American literary history. She was a poet of lyrical concentration, an editor whose judgment helped define a revolutionary period in verse, a critic attentive to the relation between art and place, and a cultural organize…
“If printed sources are not allowed, then all the old ballads collected in broadsides or chap-books must go.”
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Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Tenderness
Eunice Tietjens was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 29 July 1884, into a city whose energy, contradictions, and cultural ambitions would shape the rest of her life. She died in the same city on 6 September 1944, after a career that had carried her across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During those sixty years, she became known not only as a poet but also as a journalist, traveler, lecturer, edito…
“I'm terribly homesick for Poetry and Chicago and you!”
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American Poets, Modernist Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Irony, Despair
