Defended formal, lyric poetry in an age of expansive experimentation.

"Reactionary generation": eschewed the prevailing Modernist forms that would come to dominate the literary landscape of the era in favor of more traditional techniques.

Poetic style was unlike that of Ezra Pound or T. S. Eliot.

Bogan often refers to her female speakers as "the locus of intemperate, dangerous, antisocial desires.

Brought a different perspective to the traditional viewpoint of women.

Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls, Maine, in 1897. She attended Boston Girls` Latin School and spent one year at Boston University. She married in 1916 and was widowed in 1920. In 1925, she married her second husband, the poet Raymond Holden, whom she divorced in 1937. Her poems were published in the New Republic, the Nation, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Scribner`s and Atlantic Monthly. For thirty-eight years, she reviewed poetry for The New Yorker. Bogan found the confessional poetry of Robert Lowell and John Berryman distasteful and self-indulgent. With the poets whose work she admired, however, such as Theodore Roethke, she was extremely supportive and encourag