SOURCE: Unterecker, John. “Shape-Changing in Contemporary Poetry.” Michigan Quarterly Review 27, no. 3 (summer 1988): 490-92.
In the following excerpt, Unterecker notes the difference between Kenyon's first collection, From Room to Room, and her second, The Boat of Quiet Hours, concerning her feelings of belonging in her New England home and community. Unterecker also compares Kenyon's intellectual clarity with that of John Keats.
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