Kathleen Foster Campbell
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Kathleen Foster Campbell was an American poet. She was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club
.
, Ireland
, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago
to study poetry. Through the newly formed Poetry Club, Campbell became a close friend of Janet Lewis
, Elizabeth Madox Roberts
and Gladys Campbell
. She married Gladys' brother, Donald Campbell, an attorney. The couple lived in Chicago until Donald Campbell's retirement, when they moved to Carmel, California.
University of Chicago Poetry Club
University of Chicago Poetry Club, a group formed in 1917 by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the University of Chicago curriculum....
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Life
Kathleen Foster was born in LarneLarne
Larne is a substantial seaport and industrial market town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a population of 18,228 people in the 2001 Census. As of 2011, there are about 31,000 residents in the greater Larne area. It has been used as a seaport for over 1,000 years, and is...
, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
to study poetry. Through the newly formed Poetry Club, Campbell became a close friend of Janet Lewis
Janet Lewis
Janet Loxley Lewis was an American novelist and poet.-Biography:Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters...
, Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a Kentucky novelist and poet, primarily known for her novels and stories about the Kentucky mountain people, including The Time of Man , The Great Meadow and A Buried Treasure . All of her writings are characterized by her distinct, rhythmic prose...
and Gladys Campbell
Gladys Campbell
Gladys Campbell was a poet and teacher in Chicago. As a student she was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club....
. She married Gladys' brother, Donald Campbell, an attorney. The couple lived in Chicago until Donald Campbell's retirement, when they moved to Carmel, California.
Published work
- 1940: Poetry: 'Not Fragments', 'Wake'
- 1941: Poetry: Reviews 'The Gap of Brightness' by F. R. HigginsF. R. HigginsFrederick Robert Higgins was an Irish poet and theatre director.-Early years:Higgins was born on the west coast of Ireland in Foxford, which is located in County Mayo...
and New Zealand Poems by Eileen Duggan, Androscoggin by Marsden HartleyMarsden HartleyMarsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.-Early life and education:Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother died when he was eight, and his father remarried four years later to Martha...
, Angle of Earth and Sky by David MortonDavid MortonDavid H. Morton was an American poet.Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909....
, 'Two Islands', 'Time and Low Tide' - 1949: Poetry: 'Old Letters'.
External links
- Kathleen Foster Campbell Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.