Fantastic, David, thanks!
Andrew, according to
Wiki, she was the poetry reviewer at the
New Yorker for 38 years. Which means, anyone with a subscription can find her reviews in their online archive. I intend to do a search.
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Not only was it difficult being a female poet in the 30s and 40s, but her lower-middle-class Irish background and limited education also brought on much ambivalence and contradiction for Louise Bogan. She even refused to review women poets in her early career and stated, "I have found from bitter experience that one woman poet is at a disadvantage in reviewing another, if the review be not laudatory."
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Later that same night.....
Not only does she delightfully review Betjeman in the September 13, 1947, issue, she reviews two poets: Mr. Coxe and Miss Garrigue. Her last sentence: "Talented young Americans are not yet able to take things easy enough, to write poems that smell less of the lamp and of the seminar than of what, for lack of a better word, we must call life." I also see that the NYer published Bogan's poems.