Book Details
Title: | A Land and a People | ||||||||||
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Published: | 1952 | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Crown Publishers, Inc. | ||||||||||
Tags: | fiction, poetry | ||||||||||
Description: | Blessed is the poet with roots in a tradition, and Shirley Barker is at her best in ballads and narratives of her New England people. She has a natural storyteller’s gift with an aptness for colorful dialogue and a skilful sense of material organization. In some of these poetic encounters there are the twice-told tales with a new twist, especially in the effective character study “John Alden Speaks for Himself”, in which John sets himself straight with posterity... —The Saturday Review, September 6, 1952 [Suggest a different description.] |
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Downloads: | 237 | ||||||||||
Pages: | 80 ![]() |
Author Bio for Barker, Shirley
Shirley Frances Barker (April 4, 1911—November 18, 1965) was an American author, poet, and librarian.
Barker was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, a descendant of early settlers of Massachusetts. She attended the University of New Hampshire, graduating with a B.A. in 1934 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While still an undergraduate, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition with her poetry collection The Dark Hills Under (1933). It was published with a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet and was well reviewed.
One of the judges had detected some literary affinities between her work and that of Robert Frost, so UNH President Edward M. Lewis asked Barker to send a copy of the collection to Frost, Lewis' friend and correspondent. Frost was enraged by what he perceived as anti-Puritan and anti-theistic sentiments in Barker's poetry and bizarrely insisted that Barker was the illegitimate descendent of a person described in her poem "Portrait". In what his...
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