- Julia Randall
Julia Randall (1924-2005) was an American
poet .She was one of a number of female poets writing in English whose work retained
rhyme and meter long past the time when they were considered fashionable by the U.S. poetry scene of the twentieth century. Even her work infree verse uses techniques likealliteration ,assonance , and internal rhyme.Biography
Julia Randall was born in
Baltimore, Maryland , in 1924. She graduated fromBryn Mawr School in 1941,Bennington College with a degree in English, and fromJohns Hopkins Writing Seminar with a master's degree. She attended bothJohns Hopkins Medical School andHarvard University but found that medicine and teaching did not leave her enough time to write poetry.She wrote during the summers and taught in various schools: the
Hopkins evening school , then known asMcCoy College ; a University of Maryland branch inParis ;Goucher College ; thePeabody Conservatory ;Towson University ; and what is now known asHollins University inRoanoke, Virginia . She retired from teaching in 1973.In 1987, she moved to
Vermont , where she lived until her death at the age of 81, onMay 22 ,2005 .Poetry
Julia Randall wrote seven volumes of poetry during her lifetime:
*The Solstice Tree (1952)
*Mimic August (1960)
*The Puritan Carpenter (1965)
*Adam's Dream (1969)
*The Farewells (1981)
*Moving in Memory (1987)
* [http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/catalog/1992/Randall_Path.html The Path to Fairview (1992)]She was awarded the [http://www.poetrysociety.org/previous-awards.html#shelley American Poetry Society's Percy Bysshe Shelley Award] in 1979/1980 in recognition of her outstanding poetry, and [http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_frsh.html her "genius and need"] .
Her poetry was included in "No More Masks", an anthology of U.S. American women's poetry published in 1974.
She received the 1988
Poets' Prize for her volume "Moving in Memory".Examples of her poetry available online include
* [http://www.pshares.org/authors/featured.cfm?prmAuthorID=1241 In Memory of Francis Fergusson (1904-1986)]Critical Commentary on her Poetry
John Dorsey of the Baltimore Sun described her as "one of the most intellectual poets of the 20th century."
Moira Egan said, "Her poetry is lean and spare.... She used a quiet care to describe the landscape of Maryland and the interior landscape of her own memory, her sense of loss and her own mortality."External links
* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.randall25may25,1,2207835.story?ctrack=1&cset=true Obituary in the Baltimore Sun]
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