Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.Wikipedia
Born: September 20, 1902, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom
Died: March 7, 1971, Ashburton, United Kingdom
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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Stevie Smith | Poetry Foundation
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Calling Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning "the best collection of new poems to appear in 1957," Poetry contributor David Wright observed that "as one of ...
"The British poet Stevie Smith has always been a puzzling figure, a British eccentric whose work whips existential grief and whimsy into a bittersweet froth. That she was an original was never in dispute. She was admired by writers as different as Sylvia Plath and Ogden Nash, as well as Marianne Moore, Seamus Heaney, and Philip Larkin — the last two with some reservations. In a mostly favorable summing-up review Heaney wrote, 'Yet finally the voice, the style, the literary resources are not adequate to the somber recognitions.'”
POEMS BY STEVIE SMITH
- The Airy Christ
- Deeply Morbid
- Do Not!
- The Face
- The Grange
- More Poems by Stevie Smith (22 poems)
ARTICLES ABOUT STEVIE SMITH
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