A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson Quotes
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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| Birth: | 3rd January, 1933 |
| Nationality: | American, British |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
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Anne Stevenson is an American-British poet and writer. Obtaining her bachelors degree in 1954 and graduating with honours, she returned to the UK where she has lived most of her life. In the 1960s she lived and wrote in Cambridge, Glasgow, Dundee and Oxford. She was writer in residence at the University of Dundee and co-founded Other Poetry with Evangeline Patterson. Stevenson is the author of over a dozen volumes of poetry, of some books of essays and literary criticism, of a controversial biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, and two critical studies of Elizabeth Bishop.
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