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This review is from: Louise Bogan: A Portrait (Hardcover)
One wants to find in a literary biography a judicious mix of attention to the writer's work and to the writer's life. One finds that here in Elizabeth's Frank's biography. One also finds just the right attitude toward Bogan -- not fawningly exuberant, not tediously scholarly -- but calmly,level-headedly, and insightfully appreciative. Coming to this biography, I knew little of Bogan's life, though I knew some of her poems. I marched through the book with gratitude for every chapter. Properly the biography has sent me back to Bogan's poems, recordings of her readings, and to her prose. While I'm not a "New Yorker" groupy, Bogan's colleagues at that magazine had something: William Maxwell, E. B. White's wife, et. al. These were people who came of age in the 1920s and 1930s but never lost their heads. Bogan was a remarkably strong individual and a gifted poet and critic. More people should know about her life and work. "Louise Bogan: A Portrait" probably will never be surpassed as a place to acquaint oneself with Bogan, her time period, and other writers like Rolfe Humphries and Theodore Roethke. As biography this rates as one of the best one could ever read.
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Louise Bogan by Elizabeth Frank (Paperback - October 15, 1986)
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