DONALD HALL

(1928-)

BIO

• Connecticut

• published at 16

• Harvard U. and Oxford U.

• married to Jane Kenyon

  • poet of equal regard

  • died of Leukemia

• Poet Laureate of USA

  •  June 2006

  • the Library of Congress’ 14^th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry

BIO

• STYLE:

  • simple

  • Robert Frost – plainspoken, rural poet

  • concrete diction

  • tone = sincere, authoritative

    • created by simple, non-complex, uncomplicated syntax

• WRITES ALSO:

  • poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction essays

  • books on baseball

  • children books

    edits anthologies, textbooks