Hall, Donald Andrew Jr.
1928 - Born on September 20th in New Haven, Connecticut. An American poet, essayist, and critic whose poetic style moved from studied formalism to greater emphasis on personal expression.
1951-1953 - Hall received bachelor's degrees in literature from both Harvard and Oxford universities.
- Received the Newdigate Prize for his poem “Exile”.
1954 - He was a junior fellow at Harvard University.
1955 - His volume of poetry, Exiles and Marriages, exhibits the influence of his academic training.
1957 - He taught at the University of Michigan.
1958-1975 - In The Dark Houses, Hall showed a richer emotional range, presaging the intuitive, often idiosyncratic later work collected in A Roof of Tiger Lilies, The Alligator Bride, The Yellow Room, and The Town of Hill.
1978-1994 - Subsequent volumes include Kicking the Leaves, The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts, Old and New Poems, and Blue.
- The author's critical views and theories of literature are presented in Marianne Moore: The Cage and the Animal, Writing Well, Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird, To Read Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, The Weather for Poetry, and Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews, among other works.
- He also published String Too Short to Be Saved; several books on baseball, notably Fathers Playing Catch with Sons; and a biography of the sculptor Henry Moore. He edited The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes, The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, and other anthologies.
1996 - He wrote his poetry collection "The Old Life".
1951-1953 - Hall received bachelor's degrees in literature from both Harvard and Oxford universities.
- Received the Newdigate Prize for his poem “Exile”.
1954 - He was a junior fellow at Harvard University.
1955 - His volume of poetry, Exiles and Marriages, exhibits the influence of his academic training.
1957 - He taught at the University of Michigan.
1958-1975 - In The Dark Houses, Hall showed a richer emotional range, presaging the intuitive, often idiosyncratic later work collected in A Roof of Tiger Lilies, The Alligator Bride, The Yellow Room, and The Town of Hill.
1978-1994 - Subsequent volumes include Kicking the Leaves, The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts, Old and New Poems, and Blue.
- The author's critical views and theories of literature are presented in Marianne Moore: The Cage and the Animal, Writing Well, Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird, To Read Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, The Weather for Poetry, and Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews, among other works.
- He also published String Too Short to Be Saved; several books on baseball, notably Fathers Playing Catch with Sons; and a biography of the sculptor Henry Moore. He edited The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes, The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, and other anthologies.
1996 - He wrote his poetry collection "The Old Life".
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