Josephine Miles

Zofia Burr (George Mason University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 11 Jun 1911
Died 12 May 1985
Activity 1931-1985

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

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Literary Critic/ Historian
Poet
Scholar

Resources

Miles' Works

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Summary

Josephine Miles, poet, scholar, and teacher, was born June 11, 1911 in Chicago, and died May 12, 1985 in Berkeley, California. She grew up for the most part in Southern California, and spent her professional life in Berkeley where she taught at the University of California from 1940 until 1978. Miles engaged the full breadth and variety of poetry emerging in those decades and remained collegial with poets representing every active interest and movement in North American poetry. Her poetry was never closely identified with any particular poetry movement, however. Various, at times factional, as the most prominent twentieth century movements in North American poetry were, they shared a post-Romantic commitment to the idea that poetry was at its best when plumbing the depths of

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Citation: Burr, Zofia. "Josephine Miles". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 October 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3111, accessed 23 November 2024.]