Edgar bowers biography
Edgar bowers biography
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Edgar Bowers
American poet
Edgar Bowers (; March 2, 1924 – February 4, 2000) was an American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989 and two Guggenheim fellowships.[1] In selecting Mr.
Bowers, the judges cited his 1973 work, ''Living Together: New and Selected Poems,'' saying that it ''cemented Mr. Bowers's reputation as a poet of enduring work.'' Harold Bloom declared Bowers one of the 20th century’s masters.[2][1]
Biography
Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia, in 1924.
During World War II, he joined the military and worked in counter-intelligence against Germany, which would later inform much of his writing.[3] He was stationed for a year at Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s retreat in the Alps.[4]
He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950 and after the war, he earned his MA and PhD in English literature from Stanford University.
He wrote five collections of poetry, including For Louis Past