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...Hall the Harvard man isn’t a Harvard poet. There’s no Ivy League arrogance in his work, no flashy erudition. Rooted in the 31 years he has spent living on a farm in New Hampshire, Hall’s poetry focuses on the details of daily life. Much of his recent work deals with the loss of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, to cancer...
There’s no question that Donald Hall ’51 is a Harvard man. America’s new poet laureate learned to party at the Advocate. He remembers getting drunk with Dylan Thomas and staying up late arguing with his arty friends, all of whom wanted to be the poetic voices of their generation...
Hall came to Harvard a loner, with few friends his own age. He had attended preparatory school at Phillips Exeter Academy, and had known he was serious about poetry he was fourteen. But before Harvard, Hall had never met anyone else who wanted to be a poet...
...says he had a few good and demanding professors, including Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Harry Levin and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Archibald MacLeish, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet...
During Hall’s time, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas gave a reading at Harvard and attended an Advocate party afterwards...