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Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 – 27 June 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948. ==Biography== Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her.〔Untermeyer, Louis (editor), ''A Treasury of Great Poems'', p. 512.〕 She studied at Barnard College where she was a contemporary and friend of roommate Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published.〔Lutkehaus, Nancy C., "Margaret Mead and the 'Rustling-of-the-Wind-in-the-Palm-Tress School' of Autographic Writing", in Ruth Behar, Deborah A Gordon (editors), ''Women Writing Culture'' (University of California Press, 1996), p. 189.〕 In 1924, she became the editor of ''The Measure''. Her first volume of poetry, titled ''Those Not Elect'', was in 1925. In the spring of 1928, she had a brief affair with Edmund Wilson. Léonie apologized to Wilson for having "moped and quarreled" on the day she left for France.〔Dabney, Lewis M. (1929), "A Turning Point," in Lewis M. Danbey (editor), ''Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections'' (Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 111. ISBN 0-691-01671-2〕 While in London, Leonie met H.D., who introduced her to several figures in the London literary scene; in Paris she was invited to tea by Gertrude Stein. At the beginning of 1929, when Wilson wrote to her that he was thinking of marrying another woman, Leonie wrote back that she had had a pregnancy and hinted that she had had a miscarriage, mentioning the need for a visit to a London doctor in October.〔Dabney, ''op. cit.'' p. 112; see also Colin Walters, "Edmund Wilson, One Hundred Years On," in ''The Washington Times,'' 16 November 1997, p. 6.〕 Guilt over the pregnancy — both Wilson, and a former student, Judith Farr, reported that Léonie had a gift for making others feel guilty — combined with his heavy drinking, and indecision in other elements of his personal life led Wilson to a nervous collapse. Louise Bogan later revealed to him that Léonie's pregnancy had been imaginary,〔Dabney, ''op. cit.'' p. 119.〕 and this caused a temporary rift between Bogan and Adams. In 1929 appeared her volume ''High Falcon''. During the 1930s, she lived in the Ramapo Mountains near Hillburn, New York, and commuted to New York City to lecture on Victorian poetry at New York University.〔Kunitz, Stanley, entry from Dilly Tante (editor), ''Living Authors: A Book of Biographies'' (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935), p. 1.〕 In 1930, she met writer and fellow New York University teacher William Troy. The two married in 1933. That same year she published ''This Measure''. In 1935 she and her husband joined the faculty of Bennington College. She taught English at various other colleges and universities including Douglass College (then known as the New Jersey College for Women), the University of Washington, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. The poets for whom Adams acted as a mentor included Louise Glück.〔Glück, Louise, "The Education of the Poet," p. 144; in Eve Shelnutt (editor), ''The Confidence Woman: 26 Women Writers at Work'' (Marietta GA: Longstreet Press, 1991), pp. 133-148.〕 Fantasy writer, poet and editor Lin Carter attended her Poetry Workshop while studying at Columbia University.〔Contributor note on Lin Carter in August Derleth, ed. ''Fire, Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1961, p. 228〕 Marcella Comès Winslow painted a portrait of Adams in 1947. In 1950, she received an honorary doctorate from the New Jersey College for Women. Adams' ''Poems: A Selection'' won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as "Companions of the Morass," "For Harvest," "Grapes Making," and "The Runner with the Lots" spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare."〔Bogan, Louise, ''Selected Criticism: Prose, Poetry,'' New York: Noonday Press, 1955), p. 380.〕 In 1955, in a brief autobiography written for a biographical dictionary of modern literature, Adams threw a little light on her religious and political views: "My father... made me a childhood agnostic — I am now a Roman Catholic.... I am a very liberal democrat."〔"Adams, Léonie" in Stanley Kunitz, Vineta Colby (editors), ''Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, First Supplement'' (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1955), p. 4.〕 In 1988, she died at the age of 88 in New Milford, Connecticut. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Léonie Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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