Helen Hoyt

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Helen Lyman commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman (January 22, 1887–August 2, 1972)[1] was an American poet.

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[edit] Life and work

She was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, January 22, 1887,[2][3] and educated at Barnard College. Her niece was Elinor Wylie,[4] and her father was Henry M. Hoyt, a governor of Pennsylvania. At some point she married William Whittingham Lyman Jr, and so also became known either as Mrs. W.W. Lyman[5] or Helen Hoyt Lyman.

[edit] Career

Early in her career she was an Associate Editor of the journal Poetry, and also had numerous articles and poems published within the magazine from 1913 to 1936. She also edited the September 1916 edition of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse,[6] the woman's number. Other magazines to publish her work include The Egoist and The Masses.[7]

Aside from her own collections, her work was also published in notable anthologies of her times, including The New Poetry: An Anthology (1917), The Second Book of Modern Verse (1920) , Silver Pennies: Modern Poems for Boys and Girls (1925), May Days (1926), and The Best Poems of 1931.[8]

Her poems include Ellis Park, Memory, Lamp Posts and Rain At Night.

In 1932, she wrote the foreword to California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, [House of Henry Harrison, editors].

She was a contemporary of Marianne Moore and Mina Loy, among others.

She was known to entertain correspondence with Idella Purnell Stone and Clark Ashton Smith.

[edit] Authored Publications

  • Hoyt, Helen (1924). Apples Here in My Basket. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 
  • Hoyt, Helen (1929). Leaves Of Wild Grape. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 
  • Hoyt, Helen (1946). Poems Of Amis. Los Angeles. 

[edit] Quotation

"At present most of what we know, or think we know, of women has been found out by men, we have yet to hear what woman will tell of herself, and where can she tell more intimately than in poetry?" Others: A Magazine of the New Verse in 1916[9][10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ California Death Records. California Death Records as held on Rootsweb.com. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  2. ^ "Biography of Helen Hoyt". Biographical Notes from The Second Book Of Modern Verse. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  3. ^ Old Poetry. Old Poetry - Authors - Helen Hoyt. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  4. ^ Taylor, Georgina (2001). H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers 1913-1946: Talking Women. Oxford University Press, 76. ISBN ISBN 0198187130. 
  5. ^ Office of Historic Preservation. Office of Historic Preservation - Napa Landmarks: County Listing. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  6. ^ "Biography of Helen Hoyt". Biographical Notes from The Second Book Of Modern Verse. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  7. ^ Historical Index. Historical Index of Poetry Magazine. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  8. ^ Historical Index. Historical Index of Poetry Magazine. Retrieved on April 13, 2005.
  9. ^ William Drake (1987). The First Wave, Women Poets in America 1915-1945. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-533490-5. 
  10. ^ "endnotes". (October, 1989) HOW(ever) 5 (4). Retrieved on April 13, 2005.

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