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Quotations
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Galway Kinnell Quotes
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Galway Kinnell (born February 1st , 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. Sourced A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk The first song of his happiness, and the song...


Biography

Name: Galway Kinnell
Birth Date: February 1, 1927
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Galway Kinnell
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Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1948 and an M.A. from the University of Rochester in 1949. Kinnell served in the U.S. Navy in 1945-1946. He married Ines Delgado de Torres and has two...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Galway Kinnell Information
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Galway Kinnell (born February 1st, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping...


News and Journals
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World Literature Today
Galway Kinnell. Strong Is Your Hold.(Book review)
07/01/2007: 470 words, approx. 2 pages
Galway Kinnell. Strong Is Your Hold. New York. Houghton Mifflin. 2006. x + 69 pages + CD. $25. ISBN 0-618-22497-1 LIKE THE GREAT PIANISTS Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz, who seemed only to get better in late age, some of America's aging poets...
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The Christian Science Monitor
The loveliness of pigs: Galway Kinnell searches for the real beauty.(Features)(Books)
10/25/2001: 875 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: Elizabeth Lund Galway Kinnell is typing up a draft of a new poem when he stops to welcome an interviewer. His manual Smith-Corona, which he bought in a thrift shop 15 years ago, dates back to the late 1930s or early 1940s....
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The New York Observer
March 30, \'d0 April 6, 2005
4/3/2005: 2,219 words, approx. 7 pages
Wednesday 30thMy goodness, my Guinness! Some lessons learned this week: We've given up on taking the subway, at least when it's raining ( Moby-Dick or no Moby-Dick, the delays get our rage on); keeping a scale in the apartment does not inspire; other people actually...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Conrad Hilberry
6,512 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, mythology as well as Kinnell's own comments on the poem's structure aid Hilberry in analyzing The Book of Nightmares.
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Interview by Galway Kinnell with The Ohio Review
5,612 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following interview conducted after the publication of The Book of Nightmares, Kinnell discusses this long poem, as well as the influence of Yeats and Rilke on his work in general
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Critical Essay by David Kleinbard
5,126 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Kleinbard eaxamines The Book of Nightmares, specifically, as an example of Kinnell's poetry of a joyful acceptance of mortality as well as death 's redemptive power.
 


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