Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2005

Publication Title

The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry

Pages

256-257

Publisher Name

Infobase Publishing

Abstract

The pastoral emphasis and New England setting of Jane Kenyon's poetry has invited comparisons to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. The uncluttered spareness of her work and her interrelated themes of faith, guilt, empathy, and pessimism also place her among that collection of people known as New England poets. Kenyon's own love of John Keats-and his haunted experiences of pain and beauty-also informs her work.

Identifier

9780816046980

Comments

Author Posting © Facts on File, 2005. This article was published in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman, Pages 256-257. https://luclibrary.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/55502548?queryString=The%20Facts%20On%20File%20Companion%20To%2020th-century%20American%20Poetry&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false

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