The Blue Estuaries: Poems: 1923-1968

Louise Bogan

Macmillan, Oct 31, 1995 - Poetry - 136 pages

Honored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades. Honored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades.

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User Review  - Miriam - Goodreads

And madness chooses out my voice again, Again. I am the chosen no hand saves: The shrieking heaven lifted over men, Not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves.

Review: The Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923-1968

User Review  - Matt - Goodreads

Unversed as I am in her work, I imagine I see why she has been overlooked by contemporary poets and anthologies, justly and unjustly. Her early work is quite versified, pretty and ornate but hollow at ...

Contents

• Tale: 3
• Medusa: 4
• Sub Contra: 5
• The Frightened: 6
• Betrothed: 7
• Ad Castitatem: 8
• Knowledge: 9
• Juans Song: 10
• Portrait: 11
• The Romantic: 12
• 3 My Voice Not Being Proud: 13
• Statue and Birds: 14
• The Alchemist: 15
• Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom: 16
• i7 The Crows: 17
• Memory: 18
• i9 Women: 19
• Last Hill in a Vista: 20
• Stanza: 21
• The Changed Woman: 22
• Chanson Un Pen Naive: 23
• Fifteenth Farewell: 24
• Sonnet: 26

About the author

Books by the celebrated poet/critic Louise Bogan (1897-1970) include Body of This Death (1923), Dark Summer (1929), The Sleeping Fury (1937), Poems and New Poems (1941), Collected Poems 1923-1953 (1954), Achievement in American Poetry, 1900-1950 (1951), and Collected Poems 1923-1953 (1954). What the Woman Lived: Selected Letters of Louise Bogan 1920-1970 (1973) was edited by Ruth Limmer.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Blue Estuaries: Poems: 1923-1968
• Author: Louise Bogan
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1995
• ISBN: 0374524610, 9780374524616
• Length: 136 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General