Also, he is editor of more than a dozen anthologies. The father of two children from an earlier marriage, Hall is now married to the poet Jane Kenyon and lives in Wilmot, New Hampshire, in the house where his grandparents once lived.
Hall's interest in literature developed during his youth and soon led to associations with older, established, well-known poets. At sixteen he met Robert Frost at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and his undergraduate work for the Harvard Advocate made possible meetings with Dylan Thomas and T. S. Eliot. Later, while living in England and working for the Paris Review, he was able to interview Ezra Pound.
Hall denies any direct, stylistic influence from his literary forebears, but he admits that, as a young man, he was impressed in a personal way and learned an important lesson: "Yet from none of these men, in conversation, did I learn a critical thing. It would have been improbable that they could teach me anything useful about my poems, if they had read them. Instead, they gave me the gift of their existence. Three of them were models of persistence in art, of endurance and courage; the fourth was a virtual suicide, a counterexample.
This is a free page. This page contains 199 words. This
biography contains 1,791 words (approx. 6 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our Donald (Andrew) Hall, (Jr.) Access Pass.
