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Leonie Adams

  • Born: 1899
  • Died: 1988

Leonie Adams taught English at New York University, Bennington College and Columbia University.

Most Famous Works

  • Those Not Elect (1925)
  • High Falcon (1929)
 
 
Works: Works by Léonie Adams
(1899-1988)

1925Those Not Elect. Adams's first collection features a style that critic Allen Tate places "somewhere between the eighteenth-century decoration and the fresh intensity of a lyric by Thomas Heyward or Greene." Noteworthy poems include "Death and the Lady," "Discourse with the Heart," and "Thought's End." High Falcon, a second volume, would follow in 1929. Adams taught English at New York University, Bennington College, and Columbia.

 
 

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