Bowers, Edgar

Bowers, Edgar
▪ 2001

      American poet (b. March 2, 1924, Rome, Ga.—d. Feb. 4, 2000, San Francisco, Calif.), was a masterful poet who addressed in formalist verse such universal themes as beauty and faith. After serving in the U.S. Army's Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II, he earned a Ph.D. in English at Stanford University, where he studied under the critic and poet Yvor Winters. Bowers's early work, including The Form of Loss (1956), his first book of poetry, was strongly influenced by Winters, who stressed adherence to traditional poetic forms and the use of rhyme. From 1958 to 1991 Bowers taught English at several American universities, spending most of his career at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His collection For Louis Pasteur (1989) won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. Bowers's Collected Poems appeared in 1997.

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