Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

The daughter of a gentile mother, Helen Jones, who was an accomplished pianist, and a Jewish doctor of pathology at The Johns Hopkins University, Arnold Rich, Adrienne Cecile Rich has written poetry that is important to the women’s movement in the United States and to many of the social and political changes it engendered. Her mother instilled in her a love for the lyrical and the rhythmical, and her father, acting as tutor, encouraged her to master complicated poetic meters and rhyme schemes.

Rich attended Radcliffe College, from which she graduated in 1951, the same year...

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• Arts of the Possible (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Poetry)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Women’s Literature)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Magill Book Reviews)
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry (Women’s Literature)
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Women’s Literature)
• Diving into the Wreck (Masterplots Classics)
• Diving into the Wreck (Poetry)
• Diving into the Wreck (Literary Places)
• Dream of a Common Language, The (Identities and Issues)
• For a Sister (Poetry)
• Fox (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Living in Sin (Poetry)
• Of Woman Born (Women’s Literature)
• On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (Women’s Literature)
• Poetry of Adrienne Rich (Identities and Issues)
• Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Poetry)
• Time’s Power (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Trying to Talk with a Man (Poetry)
• Your Native Land, Your Life (Magill Book Reviews)
• English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)