- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Edgar Bowers (1924-2000)
- Creator:
- Ruppersburg, Hugh
- Date of Original:
- 2003-02-10
- Subject:
- Bowers, Edgar
Poetry
Literature
Poets, American--California--San Francisco
Authors, American--California--San Francisco
College teachers--California--San Francisco
University of California, Santa Barbara--Faculty - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Edgar Bowers. When Edgar Bowers published his Collected Poems in 1997, literary critic Harold Bloom called him "one of the best living American poets these past forty years." Although Bowers received the prestigious Bollingen Prize for Poetry, as well as two Guggenheim Fellowships, and though his work was admired and praised by such writers as Yvor Winters, Donald Justice, Richard Howard, Thomas Gunn, and Ted Hughes, he was largely unknown among readers of contemporary poetry. His modest productivity and, according to poet Leon Driskell, compact and rigorous formalism may account for his neglect in a time when confessionalism and poetic informalism were popular.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/edgar-bowers-1924-2000/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Edgar Bowers (1924-2000)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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