Catherine Davis
Encyclopedia
Catherine Davis was an American poet
. She studied poetry with J. V. Cunningham and, at Stanford University
, with Yvor Winters
. Her work is considered extraordinary by some writers and critics, but because of her physical disabilities and other problems she died without the recognition and reputation she deserved.
Poetry of the United States
American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies...
. She studied poetry with J. V. Cunningham and, at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, with Yvor Winters
Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.-As modernist:Winters's early poetry, which appeared in small avant-garde magazines alongside work by writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, was written in the modernist idiom, and was heavily influenced both by Native American...
. Her work is considered extraordinary by some writers and critics, but because of her physical disabilities and other problems she died without the recognition and reputation she deserved.