| Name |
Jane Kenyon |
| Born |
23 May 1947 |
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Group |
Halls of Guilford - DNA Family ? |
- Descendants of William Hall and Esther of Guilford, Connecticut
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| FindaGrave Memorial ID |
8112386 |
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| Died |
22 Apr 1995 |
Wilmot, Merrimack County, New Hampshire |
| Buried |
Aft 22 Apr 1995 |
Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire |
| Obituary |
27 Apr 1995 |
New York, New York County, New York |
| New York Times |
- Jane Kenyon, 47, A Poet Laureate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jane Kenyon, New Hampshire's poet laureate, died on Saturday at her home in Wilmot. She was 47.
The cause was leukemia, said her husband, the poet Donald Hall.
For 20 years Ms. Kenyon lived and worked in the farmhouse she shared with her husband, who had been her poetry teacher at the University of Michigan.
Ms. Kenyon wrote of domesticity and the rhythms of rural life. She was an inward-looking poet of intense emotion, probing her own manic-depressive suffering and the suffering of others, including that of her husband, whose cancer was diagnosed six years ago.
Her published works include "The Boat of Quiet Hours" (1987) and "Let Evening Come" (1991). In a review of "The Boat of Quiet Hours" in The New York Times, Carol Muske wrote: "These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth at its familiar New England slant." A portion of "Let Evening Come" was set to music by William Bolcom as a memorial to the soprano Tatiana Troyanos, who died in 1993.
Ms. Kenyon's poems also appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Poetry and many other publications. A new collection is to be published in the fall.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by a brother, Reuel; a stepdaughter, Philippa Smith of Concord, N.H.; a stepson, Andrew Hall, of Belmont, Mass., and five stepgrandchildren.
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| Person ID |
I13362 |
New England Hall Families Master Tree |
| Last Modified |
26 Jun 2018 |
1947 - 1995 (47 years)
