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A Study Guide for Donald Hall's "Names of Horses"
A Study Guide for Donald Hall's "Names of Horses," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Conversations with Donald Hall
Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928–2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the sculptor Henry Moore; he talks about his excitement on his return to New Hampshire and the joys of his marriage with Jane Kenyon; and he candidly discusses his loss and grief when Kenyon died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven. The thirteen interviews range from a detailed exploration of the composition of â€...
Donald Hall in Conversation with Ian Hamilton
A 112 page volume, containing a 27,000 word interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative selection of quotations from Hall's critics and reviewers. Also included is Hall's recent poem, Tidying. Hall comes across as a professional poet who has made the most of the institutional opportunities available in post-war America to build a career as writer and teacher. Twenty-two pages of closely printed bibliography attest to the scale and range of his work as an editor and anthologist ... Even-tempered and meticulous, he exemplifies a contented subservience to the work ethic. Poetry, for Hall, is a craft which can be laboured at in the expectation of success p...
Ox-cart Man by Donald Hall
This beautifully illustrated children's book recreates the mood of 19th-century rural New England. It begins in October when a farmer and his family fill it up their ox cart with everything they made or grew all year long that was left over: a bag of wool, a shaw and mittens, candles, linen, a broom, potatoes, apples, maple sugar, etc. He walked the ox and cart until he reached a market, where he sold everything, including his cart and ox. Then the man bought things that his family needed, such as an iron kettle, embroidery needle, knife for wood carving, and wintergreen peppermint candies. The story continues through the winter and spring as the family makes and grows the same items that they will again sell to buy things that they need. Winner of The Caldecott Medal.
The Old Life
The prize-winning poet's collection of autobiographical poems is "the work of a master, all the more poignant for its frankness . . . in the face of tragedy" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). One of America's most celebrated poets, Donald Hall was at the height of his powers when he wrote The Old Life. Intimate, anecdotal and often funny, these autobiographical poems follow Hall from his boyhood to his developing acquaintance with fellow poets—including seniors like Robert Frost and contemporaries like Robert Bly. They chronicle Hall's growing into manhood, fatherhood, grandfatherhood, and a happy second marriage. In the final poem, "Without," Hall laments the illness of his late wife, Jane Kenyon. "These autobiographical poems are free of self-pity, engagingly frank without being in any sense 'confessional,' and often wildly comical . . . All are first-rate." — Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Without
Hall's bestselling collection ever speaks of the death of his wife--his gift and testimony, his lament, and his celebration of loss and love.
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
The f ormer U.S. poet laureate presents the essential work from across his long and celebrated career in this sweeping collection. For decades, Donald Hall produced a body of work that established him as one of America's most significant—and beloved—poets of his generation. Celebrated for his plainspoken yet evocative imagery and his stirring explorations of bucolic life, Hall won numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the National Medal of Arts. When Hall reached his eighties, his health began to decline, and he announced that the ability to write poems has "abandoned" him. Looking back over his astonishingly rich body of work, Hall hand-picked his finest and most memorable poems for this final, concise, and essential volume.
