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William De Witt Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1926. He attended Geneva College and then served in the United States Navy until 1946. He then attended the State University of Iowa, where he earned his M.F.A. in 1953. H... ... The Peoples Archive: W. D. Snodgrass; View a video interview with...
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William De Witt Snodgrass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5 1926 – January 13 2009) was an American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons . He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. William De Witt Snodgrass was born...
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W. D. Snodgrass is often credited with being one of the founding members of the "confessional" school of poetry, even though he dislikes the term confessional and does not regard his work as such.
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I approached the experience with a touch of anxiety and a lot of amazement, especially since I had been informed another young poet, Barton Sutter, and I would be reading with W.D. Snodgrass.
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W. D. Snodgrass; 1926- | W. D. Snodgrass | W. D. Snodgrass ; Poem: The Mouse | Explication of The Mouse | Bibliography ;;
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To kick things off, William De Witt (hence the W.D.) Snodgrass was born in the town of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1926. In a sense, he was an archetypal World War 2 era poet.
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W.D. Snodgrass won the Pulitzer Prize for his first book of poems, Heart's Needle (1959). The celebrated author of more than thirty books of poetry, prose, and translations, he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Delaware and lives in Erieville, New York...
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Archival finding aid for W. D. Snodgrass Papers in Special Collections in University of Delaware Library ... W. D. Snodgrass's first book, a collection of poetry titled Heart's Needle (New York: Knopf, 1959) was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since that publication Snodgrass has produced over thirty books of...
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Jan 15, 2009 ... Mr. Snodgrass found the stuff of poetry in the raw material of his emotional life and forged a bold, self-analytical poetic style in postwar ...
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Jan 16, 2009 ... WD Snodgrass, the prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career, has died in upstate New York. He was 83.
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