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Lawrence Hart in 1951. Courtesy Lawrence Hart Institute.
Lawrence Hart (1901 - May 13, 1996) was an American poet, teacher, critic, and mentor of the "Activist Group" of poets.[1]
Life[]
Hart was born in Delta, Colorado, and moved to San Francisco in the 1920s. During the 1920s he edited a literary magazine, The Talisman.[1]
Hart began teaching poetry in 1934 in the Emergency Education program, a New Deal program. He continued to teach in the San Francisco area for the next 55 years: at the University of California Extension, at Mills College, at the College of Marin, in junior high and high schools, and in private Lawrence Hart Seminars, to which the most promising of his students were invited.[2]
In 1944 Hart married Jeanne McGahey, one of his students, and the couple moved to Berkeley, California, where their first son, John, was born in 1948.[2]
The May 1951 edition of Poetry magazine was guest-edited by Hart and devoted to the work of the Activist Group, whose approach he defined as follows: "Each phrase, each unit of poetic notation, was to be written so that it would have esthetic excitement in itself, even detached from the poem."[3]
Poetry also carried a half-issue "Activist Sequel" in November 1958, with a further "Note on the Activists" by Hart.[4] In the following year, Hart stirred controversy by writing critically of the contemporary San Francisco Renaissance.[5]
McGahey died in 1995. Hart died the following year, aged 95.[1]
Publications[]
Non-fiction[]
- Ideas of Order in Experimental Poetry. Berkeley, CA: G. Leite, 1945.
Edited[]
- Accent on Barlow: A comemmorative anthology. San Rafel, CA: privately published, 1962.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
- Hart, John (January 2001). "Pursuing the Modernist Vision: Lawrence Hart and the "Activist Group" in American Poetry". Literary Imagination 3 (3): 386–400. ISSN 1523-9012. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/litimag/3.3.386. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Obituary: Lawrence Hart, SFGate, June 6, 1996. Web, Sep. 28, 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lawrence Hart Institute, Home page. Web, Sep. 28, 2014.
- ↑ Hart, Lawrence (May 1951). "About the Activist Poets". Poetry: 99. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/78/2#!/20609255/0. Retrieved 26 January 2013. "All the poetry in this issue was done by writers working in the so-called Activist movement ...".
- ↑ Hart, Lawrence (November 1958). "A Note on the Activists." Poetry magazine, 102-104. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- ↑ Hogan, William. "Between the Lines with William Hogan." San Francisco Chronicle, 28 June 1959, This World 30.
- ↑ Search results = au:Lawrence Hart, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 28, 2014.
External links[]
- About
- Obituary: Lawrence Hart at SFGate
- "The Bay Area's 'Activists' shook up poetry in the '50s" at SFGate
- Lawrence Hart Institute Official website.
- "John Hart carries on his father Lawrence's maverick poetry vision in Marin" at Examiner.com
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