Molly Holden

Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 London - 1981) was a British poet. Her maiden name is Gilbert, granddaughter of popular children's author Henry Gilbert.^[1]

1 Life
2 Award
3 Works
- 3.1 Memoirs
- 3.2 Anthologies
4 References
5 External links

Life

She grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.^[2] She graduated from King's College London in 1951.

She suffered from Multiple Sclerosis.^[3]^[4]

Award

1972 Cholmondeley Award

Works

A Hill Like a Horse, 1963
Bright Cloud, 1964
To Make Me Grieve. Chatto and Windus. 1968.
Air and Chill Earth. Chatto and Windus. 1971.
Selected poems. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 9780856356964.

Memoirs

Geoffrey Hill, Molly Holden, Alfred Edward Housman (2003). Three Bromsgrove poets. Housman Society. ISBN 9780904579192.

Anthologies

Patricia Beer, ed (1975). New poems: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry. Hutchinson. ISBN 9780091255305.
Colin Falck, Ian Hamilton, ed (1975). Poems since 1900: an anthology of British and American verse in the twentieth century. Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 9780356031514.

References

^ Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN 0856356964. http://books.google.com/books?ei=okWYTfbJIdCjtgeUib31Cw&ct=result&id=OToiAAAAMAAJ&dq=henry+gilbert+%22robin+hood%22+peru&q=%22henry+gilbert%22#search_anchor.
^ Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192122711. http://books.google.com/books?id=5Vr1RWniW_YC&pg=PA310&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&lr=&as_brr=3.
^ Mark Willhardt, Alan Michael Parker, Andrew Peter Motion, ed (2000). Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series. Routledge. ISBN 9780415163569. http://books.google.com/books?id=kxOodeGeNQQC&pg=PA149&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&lr=&as_brr=3.
^ Ian Ousby, Doris Lessing, ed (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521440868. http://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ226OlfbkC&pg=PA444&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&lr=&as_brr=3.

External links

"The Poetry of Molly Holden", Roger Alma, Poetry Nation, No 2 - 1974
Colin Falck (2003). American and British verse in the twentieth century: the poetry that matters. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. ISBN 9780754634249. http://books.google.com/books?id=Jl2eEdGh9dYC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&source=bl&ots=wbjE78DKn9&sig=OARScGwl4i1saiG5FXNYraArTQE&hl=en&ei=wfNPSpfJMMODtgeyjMyyBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10.
Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle (2005). A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521819466. http://books.google.com/books?id=JMtqyxmo5j8C&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=Molly+Holden+poet&source=bl&ots=wEun-WzpQB&sig=_HFc9R8RIyuzBQb3fpQtE1X_2jA&hl=en&ei=wfNPSpfJMMODtgeyjMyyBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8.
SIMON Curtis (28 Sep 2007). Recent poetry. 21. pp. 75–84. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120055621/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0.

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Name	Holden, Molly
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Date of birth	7 September 1927
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Date of death	1981
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