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Robert Hillyer
Biography
ROBERT HILLYER (1895-1961) was a U.S. poet who published 15 books of poetry, 2 novels and 2 books of criticism. He volunteered with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France during World War 1 and worked as a diplomatic courier during the 1919 Paris peace conference after the war. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1934. Born in New Jersey, he taught at Harvard University, Trinity College, Kenyon College and University of Delaware. He is known for his traditional approach to poetry, classical poetic forms, pastoral themes and a rejection of Modernist innovations like free verse. FREE DOWNLOAD: You can download Hillyer's 1942 novel MY HEART FOR HOSTAGE at the Personville Press website.
Where to find Robert Hillyer online
Books
Pre-Pulitzer Poetry
by Robert Hillyer
Price:
$1.25 USD.
Words: 55,930.
Language:
English.
Published: December 29, 2023
by
Personville Press.
Categories:
Poetry » Themes & motifs » Nature, Poetry » American poetry » General
Before winning the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Robert Hillyer (1895-1961) explored a variety of subjects and poetic forms in his books. This new poetry collection contains six of Hillyer's pre-Pulitzer books in their entirety, including a longer narrative poem (Carmus) that is a haunting fairy tale for adults with beautiful imagery and sentences.