Dilys Bennett Laing (1906 in

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– 1960) was an American poet.

Education

She was educated in

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and

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. She married Alexander Laing, a

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

graduate, and later professor, in 1936 and became an American citizen. They had one son.

Career

She was a writer, poet, and artist. She was admired by such contemporary poets as

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. She died in 1960. She was included in the

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. Her papers are held at

Bibliography

Journal contributions

* ''Growl Scares Dog'', Good Housekeeping, New York, January, 1942 * ''Nautilus'',

Poetry Magazine ''Poetry'' (founded as ''Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'') has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Founded by Harriet Monroe, it is now published by the Poetry Foundat ...

, Volume 60, April 1942, Page 23 * ''To A Mathematician'', June 13, 1942,

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

, June 13, 1942, p. 17 * ''Eros Out of the Sea'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 64, June 1944, Page 137 * ''2 Poems'', Yale Review Winter 1944
''That time of year'', Harper's Magazine, January 1943, p.168
* ''Occult Adventure'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 65, January 1945, Page 191 * ''Genesis and Exodus'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 68, April 1946, Page 11 * ''Root and Branch'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 68, April 1946, Page 11 * ''The Bell'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 68, April 1946, Page 11 * ''Proof and Reproof'',

Yale Review ''The Yale Review'' is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It was founded in 1819 as ''The Christian Spectator'' to support Evangelicalism. Over time it began to publish more on hi ...

, Summer 1946
''Men at Work'', Harper's Magazine, January 1948, p.38
* ''Love has so Terrible a Face'', Yale Review Autumn 1947 * ''Rescue'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 72, May 1948, Page 74 * ''The Uncreation'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 72, May 1948, Page 74 * ''Welcome Song'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 72, May 1948, Page 74 * ''Harsh Return'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 75, March 1950, Page 332 * ''Time Is All a Year'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 79, March 1952, Page 321 * ''The Proud'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 79, March 1952, Page 321 * ''To Dolores Preserved'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 79, March 1952, Page 321 * ''Dance of Burros'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 81, December 1952, Page 174 * ''Afternoon of a Forethinker'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 82, May 1953, Page 72 * ''Capsule Dragon'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 82, August 1953, Page 255 * ''Saint Giotto of Assisi'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 83, February 1954, Page 256 * ''I Shall Know'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 83, February 1954, Page 256 * ''The Catch'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 85, October 1954, Page 13 * ''Profan Witness'', The

Beloit Poetry Journal The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College.The Nation ''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper tha ...

, January 4, 1958 * ''I Attend a Reception for a Visiting Celebrity'', The Nation, May 24, 1958 * ''Walled City'', The Nation, December 27, 1958 * ''Don't Tread on Us'', The Nation, January 31, 1959 * ''The Compassionate Torturers'', The Nation, April 23, 1960 * ''Threnody on the Demise of As and Now'', The Nation, March 19, 1960 * ''The Dazzled Ones'', The Nation, December 17, 1960 * ''The City and the Song'', The Nation, February 25, 1961 * ''Picasso's Candlefire'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 97, March 1961, Page 362 * ''The Swift Ships'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 97, March 1961, Page 362 * ''Poems from a Cage'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 101, December 1962, Page 209 * ''Maintenant'', The Nation, July 27, 1963 * ''The Power'', The Nation, August 24, 1963 * ''Flowers out of Rock'', Poetry Magazine, Volume 104, April 1964, Page 14

Books

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Reviews

* ''Our Life in Poetry: Selected Essays and Reviews'', M. L. Rosenthal, Persea Books (May 1991),

References

External links

''Poetry Magazine: The Historical Index''
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