May Sarton

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A poet as well as a novelist, May Sarton published a considerable number of volumes of verse. Her Collected Poems, 1930-1973 appeared in 1974. She also wrote a fable, Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare; an animal fantasy story, The Fur Person: The Story of a Cat; several volumes of autobiography, including I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography (1959), Plant Dreaming Deep (1968), and A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations (1976); and several journals of her life in Nelson, New Hampshire, and York,...

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See Also:

• At Eighty-two (Magill Book Reviews)
• Collected Poems, 1930-1993 (Women’s Literature)
• Collected Poems (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Collected Poems (Magill Book Reviews)
• Journal of a Solitude (Nonfiction)
• Journal of a Solitude (Women’s Literature)
• Letters to a Psychiatrist (Poetry)
• Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (American Fiction)
• Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (Character Profiles)
• Plant Dreaming Deep (Identities and Issues)
• Recovering (Identities and Issues)
• Selected Poems of May Sarton (Identities and Issues)
• Small Room, The (American Fiction)
• Small Room, The (Character Profiles)
• World of Light, A (Women’s Literature)
• Gay and Lesbian Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)