Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
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Duncan, Robert Edward, 1923-
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Duncan, Robert (Robert Edward), 1919-1988
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Duncan, Edward Howe 1919-1988
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Symmes, Robert, 1919-1988
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Symmes, Robert Edward 1919-1988
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Duncan, Edward Howard.
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Duncan, Robert E. 1919-1988
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California poet.
Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 -February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. Duncan's mature work emerged in the 1950s in the literary context of Beat culture. Duncan was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.
Robert Duncan (1919- ) is a major figure in the Projectivist School of poetry. The Oakland born poet attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as editor of the Berkeley Miscellany (1948-1949). Duncan is the author of Heavenly City, Earthly City (1947); Medieval Sciences (1950); Roots and Branches (1964); and Bending the Bow (1969).
American poet of the Black Mountain school.
American poet.
Robert Edward Duncan was an American poet who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with numerous literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. Duncan's mature work emerged in the 1950s in the literary context of Beat culture.
Robert Edward Duncan (1919-1988) was an American poet who was a major figure in the Projectivist School of poetry. His works include Heavenly CIty, Earthly City (1947); Medieval Sciences (1950); Roots and Branches (1964); and Bending the Bow (1969).
Robert Duncan was one of the most important American poets to emerge after the second World War. A seminal figure in what has come to be known as the Black Mountain Group of poets and writers, Duncan also figured prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area movement of the 1950's and 1960's.
Robert Duncan was born in Oakland, California. He was adopted with the name Robert Symmes in 1920 and reverted to Duncan in 1941. He was educated at the University of California at Berkeley. He edited "The Experimental Review", "Phoenix", The Berkeley Miscellany", all in Berkeley, between 1938 and 1949. He is known as a prolific poet, but also worked as a dramatist, teacher and editor. He helped establish the San Francisco Bay area as a major centre for poetry in the USA. He taught at Black Mountain College in 1956 and became known as one of the principle Black Mountain poets. After 1950, his work was closely associated with Charles Olsen, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov. He won many honours for his work including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1963. He died in San Francisco.
American poet; d. 1989.
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