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Donald Hall

Biography Donald Hall

Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Hall was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, and Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft.

The poems collected in Exiles and Marriages (1955) exhibit the influence of Hall’s academic training: their style and structure are rigorously formal. In The Dark Houses (1958) he shows a richer emotional range, presaging the intuitive, anecdotal works for which he has become best known—e.g., A Roof of Tiger Lilies (1964) and The Alligator Bride (1968). The book-length The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts (1988), considered his masterpiece, is an intricate meditation on middle age. White Apples and the Taste of Stone (2006) is a collection of poetry from across his career.

Hall’s numerous prose works ranged widely, from Marianne Moore: The Cage and the Animal (1970) to a biography of the American sculptor Henry Moore. He edited anthologies of verse and of prose and wrote books for children. He also wrote works on baseball, including Fathers Playing Catch with Sons (1985).

The death in 1995 of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, powerfully influenced his later work: the poetry collections Without (1998) and The Painted Bed (2002) explore loss and grieving, and The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon (2005) is a memoir.

Film

Donald Hall was the subject of a short documentary by Paul Szynol called Quiet Hours. He also appeared in Ken Burns' 1994 documentary on baseball.

Personal Life

Hall lived at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, a small town in Merrimack County. He was married to poet and author Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) for 23 years and lived with her until her death. Hall died on June 23, 2018, at the age of 89 at his home in Wilmot.

Poetry

  • 1952: Exile
  • 1952: Fantasy Poets Number Four
  • 1955: Exiles and Marriages
  • 1957: New Poets of England and America
  • 1958: The Dark Houses
  • 1964: A Roof of Tiger Lilies
  • 1969: The Alligator Bride
  • 1971: The Yellow Room: Love Poems
  • 1975: The Town of Hill
  • 1975: A Blue Wing Tilts at the Edge of the Sea: Selected Poems, 1964–1974
  • 1978: Kicking the Leaves
  • 1979: The Toy Bone
  • 1981: The Wilderness Years
  • 1986: The Happy Man
  • 1988: The One Day
  • 1990: Old and New Poems
  • 1993: The Museum of Clear Ideas
  • 1996: The Old Life
  • 1998: Without
  • 2000: Two by Two (with Richard Wilbur)
  • 2002: The Painted Bed
  • 2006: White Apples and the Taste of Stone
  • 2011: The Back Chamber
  • 2015: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

The Wreckage

Donald Hall

The Words

Donald Hall

Without

Donald Hall

Wells

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This Room

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The Table

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T. R.

Donald Hall

Syllables of a Small Fig-Tree

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Swan

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The Sun

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Sums

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The Stump

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Some Americans in Paris

Donald Hall

A Sister on the Tracks

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The Ship Pounding

Donald Hall

A Second Stanza for Dr. Johnson

Donald Hall

Poem with One Fact

Donald Hall

Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein

Donald Hall

North South

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The Morning Porches

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Midwinter Letter

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Matter of Fact

Donald Hall

Maple Syrup

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The Man in the Dead Machine

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Lycanthropy Revisited

Donald Hall

The Lone Ranger

Donald Hall

The Kiss

Donald Hall

Jamaica

Donald Hall

Internal and External Forms

Donald Hall

Her Garden

Donald Hall

The Grave, the Mine

Donald Hall

Goggles and Helmet

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For an Early Retirement

Donald Hall

The Footsteps

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Extended Care

Donald Hall

Eating the Pig

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The Days

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Convergences

Donald Hall

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville

Donald Hall

Caribbean

Donald Hall

The Blue Wing

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The Black-Faced Sheep

Donald Hall

The Beau of the Dead

Donald Hall

A Beard for a Blue Pantry

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The Baseball Players

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Bamboo

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At Eagle Pond

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Assassin

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Apples

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Apology for Old Clothes

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Amos

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After Horace (Odes III, 5)

Donald Hall

Advent

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Adultery at Forty

Donald Hall

Affirmation

Donald Hall Beautiful, Friend, Lost, Marriage, School, Sometimes, Woman, Women

Name Of Horses

Donald Hall April, Autumn, Dark, Horse, Light, October, Sea, Spring, Summer, Sun, Tree, Winter

An Old Life

Donald Hall Car, Cat, Life, Night, Snow, Thanks

Distressed Haiku

Donald Hall April, Green, Haiku, Red, Snow, Today

White Apples

Donald Hall Father

Christmas Party At The South Danbury Church

Donald Hall Brother, Child, Children, Christmas, Dark, God, Green, Red, School, Silence, Sister, Song, Tree, World

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