[Elegy, Robert Lowell] 1977 October 1.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977

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American poet Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was born in Boston on March 1, 1917, to Robert Traill Spence Lowell III and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, a relation of writers James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. In addition to being the descendant of poets, Lowell encountered and was taught by numerous prominent poets during his classicist education. Lowell attended St. Mark's School (1930-1935), where he was influenced by Richard Eberhart, and Harvard University (1935-1937). In 1937, Boston psychiatr...

Given by Heaney to Pearson on the occasion of their first meeting at an east-side bus station in Manhattan, October 1, 1977.

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Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006

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Henry Pearson (1914-2006) was a painter from Kinston, N.C. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Pearson, 1965 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82194653 Painter and educator; New York City and Kingston, North Carolina. Studied University of North Carolina and Yale. Preferred media are oil and watercolor. d. 2006. From the description of Henry Pearson papers, 1937-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78529759 ...