1DebiCates
This thread is open to two possible strains:
A. the careers, jobs, and menial work poets have had in their lives
B. other Arts that poets do, and often do well.
A. the careers, jobs, and menial work poets have had in their lives
B. other Arts that poets do, and often do well.
2DebiCates
Today I listened to the Richard Burton version of Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices and read the text as I went along, too.
I absolutely fell in love with it.
I went on to learn that Dylan Thomas was a stage actor, writer, producer and set painter. He was involved films and broadcasting too, writing film screenplays and documentary screenplays, as well as radio plays. He also wrote novels and short stories. His life's focus was on writing and performance. A definite, full-time Artistic type B strain.
I absolutely fell in love with it.
I went on to learn that Dylan Thomas was a stage actor, writer, producer and set painter. He was involved films and broadcasting too, writing film screenplays and documentary screenplays, as well as radio plays. He also wrote novels and short stories. His life's focus was on writing and performance. A definite, full-time Artistic type B strain.
3LolaWalser
Wallace Stevens, famously, spent his life working in insurance. As an exec he didn't find it too onerous.
T. S. Eliot, otoh, abandoned banking as soon as his poetry became bankable.
My big fave, François Villon, albeit university-educated became a wanderer and a cutpurse and ended his life on the gallows.
T. S. Eliot, otoh, abandoned banking as soon as his poetry became bankable.
My big fave, François Villon, albeit university-educated became a wanderer and a cutpurse and ended his life on the gallows.
4DebiCates
>3 LolaWalser: I do find those poets that continued working in non-related jobs especially interesting, as if they needed time away from their poetry? There's Wallace as you mentioned. William Carlos Williams was a practicing doctor.
Philip Larkin was a librarian most of his life ending as University Librarian at the University of Hull. Larkin wrote "Toads" about the bitterness of a working class life, but then later changed his mind, it seems, and wrote "Toads Revisted."
T.S.Eliot, once he was established as a poet and was able to leave banking, didn't he take an active position with publishing company Farber?
François Villon is new to me. After a quick Google, his surname seems remarkably close to apt. ha
Wonder what female poets did with their lives outside of poetry? I'll be keeping an eye out for that.
Philip Larkin was a librarian most of his life ending as University Librarian at the University of Hull. Larkin wrote "Toads" about the bitterness of a working class life, but then later changed his mind, it seems, and wrote "Toads Revisted."
T.S.Eliot, once he was established as a poet and was able to leave banking, didn't he take an active position with publishing company Farber?
François Villon is new to me. After a quick Google, his surname seems remarkably close to apt. ha
Wonder what female poets did with their lives outside of poetry? I'll be keeping an eye out for that.
