1. Edgar Bowers - The Academy Of American Poets Edgar Bowers The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. Some pages also include RealAudio clips of the poet http://www.poets.org/poets/ebowers

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia, where his father ran a plant nursery. During World War II he served in Counter Intelligence, ending his military service in Berchtesgaden, Hitler's eyrie in the Bavarian Alps. The experiences of these years had a deep and permanent effect on his poetry. On his discharge in April 1946 he returned to the University of North Carolina, and then finished his graduate studies with a Ph.D. in English at Stanford University. In 1956 Bowers published his first collection of poetry, The Form of Loss . His other books of poetry are Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997); For Louis Pasteur (1990), which won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry; Living Together (1973); and The Astronomers (1965). Bowers, who received two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, worked as a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara for most of his professional career. After retiring in 1991, he moved to San Francisco, where he lived until his death on February 4, 2000. This bio was last updated on May 8, 2000.

2. Bowers Edgar - OpenPoetryProject Edgar Bowers (19242000). Under the influence of (Yvor Winters)?, the early workof Edgar Bowers is accomplished in the use of rhyme and traditional forms. http://openpoetry.com/BowersEdgar

BowersEdgar OpenPoetryProject RecentChanges Preferences Edgar Bowers (1924-2000) US poet and teacher. Born 2 March 1924 in Rome, Georgia, USA Died 4 February, 2000, in San Francisco, California, USA. His mother was a teacher. His father worked in a nursery garden. He joined the University of North Carolina in 1942 but he interrupted his studies for two years during the Second World War and after. He joined the US Army and served in the Counter Intelligence Corps assigned to the 101st Airborne division and then was stationed at Hitler's Berchtesgarden stronghold in Germany where he served as an interpreter until he was discharged in April 1946. He returned to complete his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina. He moved to Stanford in 1947 to undertake his doctorate on the poems of Yeats's friend T. Sturge Moore. He studied under the critic and minor poet (Yvor Winters) . One of his peers there was (Thom Gunn) For a decade he taught at several universities including Duke University and Harpur College. He then settled at the University of California at Santa Barbara where he stayed for 30 years until he retired in 1991. He was a member of the English Faculty where he specialised in English Renaissance and modern poetry. He bought a small, traditional wood-frame house in the wealthy suburb of Montecito where he could sit on his raised verandah which reached out over the beach and gave him a view of the ocean with sightings of dolphins and surfers to inspire him. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1959, and a second one in 1969.

3. Edgar Bowers - Poems And Biography By PoetryConnection.net Biography of Edgar Bowers. Edgar Bowers (1924 2000). William Edgar htm.Poems written by Edgar Bowers. Collected Poems. Dedication http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Edgar_Bowers

Poem of the Day Top 30 Poets American Poems ... Search Today, on May 27th, 2004, the site contains 41 poets and 2322 poems. Biography of Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers (1924 - 2000) William Edgar Bowers, Jr., one of the finest American poets of the 20th century, was born on March 2, 1924, in Rome, Georgia. The son of a plant nurseryman, William Edgar Bowers, Sr., and a teacher, Grace Lydia Anderson, the poet had one sibling, Lydia Eleanor Bowers, who was born in 1926. The Bowers family lived in several of the southeastern states until the Great Depression forced them to move back to Georgia, this time to Decatur, where they were taken in by Grace Bowers’s elder sister, Jennie Anderson. It was the poet’s Aunt Jennie who would later serve as the model for his poem “Mary,” a moving portrait of a Southern schoolteacher. Eventually the poet’s father established a plant nursery near Stone Mountain, Georgia, where he and his family raised and sold azaleas, camellias, daphnes, and rhododendrons. Stone Mountain Gardens, as the business was called, and its surrounding acreage served as the setting for some of Bowers’s most important works, including his sequence “Autumn Shade” and his richly detailed pastoral poem “Elegy: Walking the Line.” While Bowers and his sister were growing up, the family continued to live in Decatur, where the poet attended local schools. At the age of nine, Bowers first heard Christina Rossetti’s poem “Who Has Seen the Wind?” and was captivated by its meter and rhyme. At Decatur Boys’ High School, Bowers received what he once described as “an old-fashioned education” in poetry, reading the works of William Cullen Bryant, Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. He joined with his high school friends to form a writers’ club that produced a literary magazine as well as theatricals in which the writers performed.

4. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia. Photo Gay Block. Edgar Bowershas been one of the best living American poets these last forty years. http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/bowers/

Collected Poems Academy of American Poets Edgar Bowers page About Edgar Bowers in Publishers Weekly Elegy for Edgar Bowers by David Rigsbee in the ... Cortland Review Edgar Bowers was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia. His schooling was interrupted by the second world war in which he served in the Counter Intelligence Corps assigned to the 101st Airborne division and then in Berchtesgaden, Germany. On his discharge in April, 1946, he returned to the University of North Carolina, finishing his graduate studies with a Phd in English at Stanford University. He has taught at Duke University, Harpur College, and finally at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California, from 1958 to his retirement in 1991. Among his many awards were two Guggenheim fellowships (1959, 1969) and the Bolligen Prize for Poetry (1989). Photo: Gay Block "Edgar Bowers has been one of the best living American poets these last forty years. His Collected Poems now testifies to his authentic eminence: in vital form, in accuracy of perception and sensation, in a vision at once original yet profoundly representative of the American imagination at its most eloquent maturity." Harold Bloom "There's a great cumulative power to this collection. Bowers started with youthful stoicism, but the feeling is now governed by an increasing acceptance of the physical world, indeed not breaking with its stoic past, but occasionally extending to a positive joy. The past now serves a present alert with possibilities." Thom Gunn

5. Outpost 10F - Poetry Guild - Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers. Born March 2, 1924 Died February 4, 2000. Edgar Bowers was bornon his father s plant nursery in Rome, Georgia, on March 2nd, 1924. http://guilds.outpost10f.com/~poetry/poetry/bios/bowers.html

Poet of the Month Poetry Contest What's New? ... Contact Us Edgar Bowers Born March 2, 1924 Died February 4, 2000 Edgar Bowers was born on his father's plant nursery in Rome, Georgia, on March 2nd, 1924. He served in Intelligence during World War II, in Berchtesgaden, Hitler's eyrie in the Bavarian Alps. His poetry was deeply affected by his experience of these war years. He returned to the University of North Carolina on his discharge from the army in April 1946, and then finished his graduate studies with a Ph.D. in English at Stanford University. Bowers' first work of poetry, The Form of Loss , was published in 1956. His other books of poetry are Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997); For Louis Pasteur (1990), which won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry; Living Together (1973); and The Astronomers Bowers received two Guggenhiem Fondation fellowships, and worked at the University of California,Santa Barbara as a professor of English for most of his professional life. When he retired in 1991, he moved to San Francisco. He lived there until his death on February 4th, 2000. Biography by Seerdon Submitted on 10.01.02

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7. Guardian Unlimited Books | By Genre | Edgar Bowers Obituary memorializing the American poet. http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,136944,00.html

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8. 8023. Bowers, Edgar. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 Into the very water that she lights; ATTRIBUTION edgar bowers (b. 1924), U.S. poet http://www.bartleby.com/66/23/8023.html

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9. 2000, University Of California: In Memoriam: Table Of Contents edgar bowers was born in Rome, Georgia, on March 2nd, 1924 edgar bowers was an extraordinarily dedicated poet, which is one of the reasons why his poetic output is not http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org:8088/dynaweb/uchist/public/inmemoriam/inmemoriam200

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10. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Edgar Bowers Poem by edgar bowers, with commentary by Donald Justice. http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/bowers/poem.html

Collected Poems Academy of American Poets Edgar Bowers page About Edgar Bowers in Publishers Weekly Elegy for Edgar Bowers by David Rigsbee in the ... Cortland Review "Living Together" from COLLECTED POEMS Of you I have no memory, keep no promise. But, as I read, drink, wait, and watch the surf, Faithful, almost forgotton, your demand Becomes all others, and this loneliness The need that is your presence. In the dark, Beneath the lamp, attentive, like a sound I listen for, you draw near closer, surer Than speech, or sight, or love, or love returned. Commentary by Donald Justice This dark little poem is about trying to come to terms with some hidden aspect of the self not wholly accessible to reason. The style has the beautiful stark dignity of many of Bowers's poems, but there is another side to his work which should be mentioned as wella kind of cheerful stoicism that stemmed from his enormous zest for life. But then Bowers is not the first poet to live brightly and write darkly.

11. Poet: Edgar Bowers - All Poems Of Edgar Bowers All poems of edgar bowers .. Their careful webs against the boding sky " edgar bowers (b. 1924), U.S. poet Into the very water that she lights;" edgar bowers (b. 1924), U.S. poet http://www.poemhunter.com/edgar-bowers/poet-11825

Poem Hunter .com Home Poets Poems Search ... Contact Us Poets: A B C D ... All Edgar Bowers Poems Quotations Comments Resources ... Stats Poems Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Amor Vincit Omnia For Louis Pasteur John The Mountain Cemetery Quotations "Sometimes outside beneath a bombers' moon You stood alone to watch the searchlights trace Their careful webs against the boding sky," Edgar Bowers (b. 1924), U.S. poet. The Stoic: for Laura von Courten (l. 3-5). . . Contemporary American Poets, The; American Poetry since 1940. Mary Strand, ed. (1969) World Publishing Company. "Eternal Venice sinking by degrees Into the very water that she lights;" Edgar Bowers (b. 1924), U.S. poet. The Stoic: for Laura von Courten (l. 19-20). . . Contemporary American Poets, The; American Poetry since 1940. Mary Strand, ed. (1969) World Publishing Company. Comments about Edgar Bowers There is no comment submitted by members.. Click here to write your comments about Edgar Bowers Web resources about Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers - The Academy of American Poets Edgar Bowers : The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits.

12. On Edgar Bowers Elegy for the American poet by fellow writer David Rigsbee. http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/00/04/rigsbee.html

13. Poets & Writers - BOLLINGEN Prize-winning Poet Edgar Bowers Died Friday In His S February 7, 2000. OLLINGEN Prizewinning poet edgar bowers died Friday in his San Francisco home. He was 75. The New York Times reported that the cause of death was non-Hodgkins lymphoma. the poet's brilliant technique and grace. " edgar wrote very little, but it was always perfect " fellow http://www.pw.org/mag/news/News000207.htm

February 7, 2000 OLLINGEN Prize-winning poet Edgar Bowers died Friday in his San Francisco home. He was 75. The New York Times reported that the cause of death was non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Though Bowers was not a prolific writer, each of his poems was executed with the poet's brilliant technique and grace. "Edgar wrote very little, but it was always perfect," fellow poet and friend Thom Gunn told the Los Angeles Times . Unlike the rapid succession of books that many contemporary poets seem to release, Bowers sometimes spent decades carefully crafting poems between books. His perfectionism earned him high praise, both from colleagues and from the prize committees for several prestigious awards. He twice won Guggenheim Fellowships, and in 1989 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize, an honor that placed him in the company of Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens. Originally from Rome, Georgia, Bowers attended the University of North Carolina, and left to serve in the Counter Intelligence Corps for two years during World War II and after. He finished his undergraduate degree at UNC, and then continued his education at Stanford. There, Bowers earned a doctorate and studied with the eminent poet and critic Yvor Winters. Winters later said of Bowers's first book, The Form of Loss (Alan Swallow, 1956), that it contains poems "among the best American poems of this century, and 9 or 10 of them among the very great poems." He remained for much of his life in California, where he taught at UC Santa Barbara for 33 years. Fellow professor Porter Abbott told the

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18. OAC: bowers (edgar) Papers. View options Standard. Entire finding aid (12K bytes). Collectionnumber 565. Creator bowers, edgar, 19242000. Extent 18.5 linear ft. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8h4nb4fj

Bowers (Edgar) Papers Finding Aids Browse UC Los Angeles Special Collections, Young Research Library Bowers (Edgar) Papers Bowers (Edgar) Papers View options: Standard Entire finding aid (12K bytes) Contents: Descriptive Summary Administrative Information Biography Scope and Content Descriptive Summary Title: Edgar Bowers Papers, 1921-2000 Collection number: Creator: Bowers, Edgar, 1924-2000 Extent: 18.5 linear ft. and two oversize boxes. Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90095-1575 Abstract: The collection documents the life and work of Edgar Bowers (1924-2000). The collection contains materials from before Bowers's birth, his early years in Georgia, his life in Princeton and Europe during World War II, his college years in Stanford, his many years as an English professor, to his last years in San Francisco, where he retired after many years as a full professor of the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He died in San Francisco on February 4th , 2000. The collection includes family letters, photos and other mementos of Edgar Bowers's family and early life, Bowers's own published and unpublished works, his awards, personal material and correspondence, and photos and books from friends and colleagues. Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

19. Edgar Bowers Conference At UCLA > The Man From Georgia How Shall a Generation Know Its Story The edgar bowers Conference and Exhibition, presented by the UCLA Library Department of Special Collections and the UCLA English Department. edgar bowers at http://www.library.ucla.edu/special/scweb/georgiatext.htm

THE MAN FROM GEORGIA ON EXHIBIT Bowers began his undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but the Second World War interrupted his studies, and he soon found himself in the Army. Upon his discharge in April, 1946, he returned to Chapel Hill, earning his bachelor’s degree with a double major in French and German, and then completed his education with a doctorate in English at Stanford University in 1953. Like his mother and aunt, Bowers became a teacher, first at Stanford, then at Duke University and Harpur College (now part of SUNY Binghamton), and finally, from 1958 to 1991, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his many years as an English professor, Bowers periodically returned to Georgia to visit his mother near Stone Mountain, where she lived in a house completed shortly after his father’s death in 1953. It was at Stone Mountain that Bowers would immerse himself in the Georgia landscape, finding in it the inspiration for many of his most memorable poems. Edgar Bowers at age two years, nine months

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