Donald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89

25 June 2018
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Mr. Hall was one of the leading poets of his generation, frequently mentioned in the company of Robert Bly, James Wright and Galway Kinnell. In evoking a bucolic New England past and expressing a deep veneration of nature, he used simple and direct language, though often to surreal effect.

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