Jean Starr Untermeyer
Who is Jean Starr Untermeyer
Jean Starr Untermeyer (March 13, 1886 – July 27, 1970) was an American poet, translator, and educator. She was the author of six volumes of poetry and a memoir. She was married to the poet Louis Untermeyer.
Biography
Starr was born into a well-off Jewish family in Zanesville, Ohio, the daughter of Abram Starr and Johanna Starr (née Schonfeld), the oldest of three siblings. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Germany.Starr was educated at Kohut College Preparatory School for Girls, in New York City, and then entered Columbia University. While still in college, she met the poet Louis Untermeyer, whom she married, on January 23, 1907, without finishing her degree. In December of the same year the couple's son Richard was born.Through her marriage Jean Un...
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- Poetsorg: but now i think i must always cherish
rain-hung leaf and the misty river;
—jean starr untermeyer
- Gattofritto: "my body is white and smooth and tender," sighed plotia in a whispering lament, "but you did not care to touch it."
hermann broch, the death of virgil, 1945. [tr. jean starr untermeyer]
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- Poetsorg: but now i think i must always cherish
rain-hung leaf and the misty river;
and the friendly screen of dripping green
where eager kisses were shyly given
and your pipe-smoke made clouds in our damp, close heaven.
—jean starr untermeyer
- Gattofritto: pregnant with shadows, liberal and loving in recovered naturalness, the night which was being swept along, carrying him onward in her branches, in her plumage, in her arms, in her breath, on her breast.”
hermann broch, the death of virgil, 1945
[tr. jean starr untermeyer]
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