Mary Barnard

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Mary Barnard


Born
in Vancouver, Washington, The United States
December 06, 1909

Died
August 25, 2001


Mary Barnard was a prominent American poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's suggestion in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress. She also published prose fiction and a volume of essays on mythology as well as the original lyrics gathered in Collected Poems. ...more

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Sappho by Mary Barnard (201...

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Collected Poems

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Time and the White Tigress

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Assault on Mount Helicon: A...

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Mythmakers

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Nantucket Genesis: The Tale...

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Three Fables

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Diary of an Optimist

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Collected Poems

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