American poet. She is known for her lyric poetry in the English romantic tradition. Adams was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.
The fifth of six children of Charles Frederick Adams and Henrietta Rozier Adams, she was raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her.
She studied at Barnard College, where she was a contemporary and close friend of roommate Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published. In 1924, she became the editor of "The Measure". Her first volume of poetry, titled "Those Not Elect", was published in 1925 and praised by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Her early fame caused her to be taken up by a number of celebrities in the literary world. In the spring of 1928, shortly before leaving for Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, she had a brief affair with author Edmund Wilson. While in London, she met the poet H.D., who introduced her to several figures in the London literary scene, and in Paris, where she was sent to translate the lyrics of François Villon, she was invited to tea by Gertrude Stein.
In 1929, her volume "High Falcon" appeared. During the 1930s, she lived in the Ramapo Mountains near Hillburn, New York, and commuted to New York City to lecture on Victorian poetry at New York University. In 1930, she met writer and fellow New York University teacher William Troy, whom she married in 1933. That same year she published "This Measure". In 1935 she and her husband joined the faculty of Bennington College.
She later taught English at various other colleges and universities including Douglass College (then known as the New Jersey College for Women), the University of Washington, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Louise Glück was among the poets who counted Adams as a mentor, as did fantasy writer, poet and editor Lin Carter, who attended her poetry workshop while studying at Columbia University. Marcella Comès Winslow painted a portrait of Adams in 1947. In 1950, she received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey College for Women.
"Adams' Poems: A Selection" won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as "Companions of the Morass," "For Harvest," "Grapes Making," and "The Runner with the Lots" spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare."
In 1955, in a brief autobiography written for a biographical dictionary of modern literature, Adams threw a little light on her religious and political views: "My father... made me a childhood agnostic — I am now a Roman Catholic.... I am a very liberal Democrat."
In 1988, she died at the age of 88 in New Milford, Connecticut.
[Source: Wikipedia]
The fifth of six children of Charles Frederick Adams and Henrietta Rozier Adams, she was raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her.
She studied at Barnard College, where she was a contemporary and close friend of roommate Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published. In 1924, she became the editor of "The Measure". Her first volume of poetry, titled "Those Not Elect", was published in 1925 and praised by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Her early fame caused her to be taken up by a number of celebrities in the literary world. In the spring of 1928, shortly before leaving for Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, she had a brief affair with author Edmund Wilson. While in London, she met the poet H.D., who introduced her to several figures in the London literary scene, and in Paris, where she was sent to translate the lyrics of François Villon, she was invited to tea by Gertrude Stein.
In 1929, her volume "High Falcon" appeared. During the 1930s, she lived in the Ramapo Mountains near Hillburn, New York, and commuted to New York City to lecture on Victorian poetry at New York University. In 1930, she met writer and fellow New York University teacher William Troy, whom she married in 1933. That same year she published "This Measure". In 1935 she and her husband joined the faculty of Bennington College.
She later taught English at various other colleges and universities including Douglass College (then known as the New Jersey College for Women), the University of Washington, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Louise Glück was among the poets who counted Adams as a mentor, as did fantasy writer, poet and editor Lin Carter, who attended her poetry workshop while studying at Columbia University. Marcella Comès Winslow painted a portrait of Adams in 1947. In 1950, she received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey College for Women.
"Adams' Poems: A Selection" won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as "Companions of the Morass," "For Harvest," "Grapes Making," and "The Runner with the Lots" spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare."
In 1955, in a brief autobiography written for a biographical dictionary of modern literature, Adams threw a little light on her religious and political views: "My father... made me a childhood agnostic — I am now a Roman Catholic.... I am a very liberal Democrat."
In 1988, she died at the age of 88 in New Milford, Connecticut.
[Source: Wikipedia]
American poet. She is known for her lyric poetry in the English romantic tradition. Adams was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.
The fifth of six children of Charles Frederick Adams and Henrietta Rozier Adams, she was raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her.
She studied at Barnard College, where she was a contemporary and close friend of roommate Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published. In 1924, she became the editor of "The Measure". Her first volume of poetry, titled "Those Not Elect", was published in 1925 and praised by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Her early fame caused her to be taken up by a number of celebrities in the literary world. In the spring of 1928, shortly before leaving for Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, she had a brief affair with author Edmund Wilson. While in London, she met the poet H.D., who introduced her to several figures in the London literary scene, and in Paris, where she was sent to translate the lyrics of François Villon, she was invited to tea by Gertrude Stein.
In 1929, her volume "High Falcon" appeared. During the 1930s, she lived in the Ramapo Mountains near Hillburn, New York, and commuted to New York City to lecture on Victorian poetry at New York University. In 1930, she met writer and fellow New York University teacher William Troy, whom she married in 1933. That same year she published "This Measure". In 1935 she and her husband joined the faculty of Bennington College.
She later taught English at various other colleges and universities including Douglass College (then known as the New Jersey College for Women), the University of Washington, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Louise Glück was among the poets who counted Adams as a mentor, as did fantasy writer, poet and editor Lin Carter, who attended her poetry workshop while studying at Columbia University. Marcella Comès Winslow painted a portrait of Adams in 1947. In 1950, she received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey College for Women.
"Adams' Poems: A Selection" won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as "Companions of the Morass," "For Harvest," "Grapes Making," and "The Runner with the Lots" spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare."
In 1955, in a brief autobiography written for a biographical dictionary of modern literature, Adams threw a little light on her religious and political views: "My father... made me a childhood agnostic — I am now a Roman Catholic.... I am a very liberal Democrat."
In 1988, she died at the age of 88 in New Milford, Connecticut.
[Source: Wikipedia]
The fifth of six children of Charles Frederick Adams and Henrietta Rozier Adams, she was raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her.
She studied at Barnard College, where she was a contemporary and close friend of roommate Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published. In 1924, she became the editor of "The Measure". Her first volume of poetry, titled "Those Not Elect", was published in 1925 and praised by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Her early fame caused her to be taken up by a number of celebrities in the literary world. In the spring of 1928, shortly before leaving for Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, she had a brief affair with author Edmund Wilson. While in London, she met the poet H.D., who introduced her to several figures in the London literary scene, and in Paris, where she was sent to translate the lyrics of François Villon, she was invited to tea by Gertrude Stein.
In 1929, her volume "High Falcon" appeared. During the 1930s, she lived in the Ramapo Mountains near Hillburn, New York, and commuted to New York City to lecture on Victorian poetry at New York University. In 1930, she met writer and fellow New York University teacher William Troy, whom she married in 1933. That same year she published "This Measure". In 1935 she and her husband joined the faculty of Bennington College.
She later taught English at various other colleges and universities including Douglass College (then known as the New Jersey College for Women), the University of Washington, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Louise Glück was among the poets who counted Adams as a mentor, as did fantasy writer, poet and editor Lin Carter, who attended her poetry workshop while studying at Columbia University. Marcella Comès Winslow painted a portrait of Adams in 1947. In 1950, she received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey College for Women.
"Adams' Poems: A Selection" won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as "Companions of the Morass," "For Harvest," "Grapes Making," and "The Runner with the Lots" spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare."
In 1955, in a brief autobiography written for a biographical dictionary of modern literature, Adams threw a little light on her religious and political views: "My father... made me a childhood agnostic — I am now a Roman Catholic.... I am a very liberal Democrat."
In 1988, she died at the age of 88 in New Milford, Connecticut.
[Source: Wikipedia]
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