This man may have undergone conversion to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed, although this has been disputed by his daughter.
This man may have undergone conversion to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed, although this has been disputed by his daughter. Critic William York Tindall described this author as a politically conservative Republican, and after working as a lawyer for many years, only gradually took up poetry. The literary critic Harold Bloom compared this poet to Sophocles, referring to him as the quintessential American poet, in reference to works like Harmonium. He wrote that "The poem must resist the intelligence/ Almost successfully" when referring to the relationship between consciousness and the world, and wrote "Poetry is the supreme Fiction, madame" in his satirical poem "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman". FTP, who was this poet who allegedly broke his hand punching Ernest Hemingway in the jaw, famous for works such as "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", and "The Emperor of Ice Cream"?
This man may have undergone conversion to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed, although this has been disputed by his daughter.
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