![]() and doyenne of a newly-defined female literature.” Her poetry of the 1970s and 1980s serve as central texts for the second-wave feminist movement. ![]() She has progressed in life (and in her poems …) from young widow and disenchanted formalist, to spiritual and rhetorical convalescent, to feminist leader. Rich’s metamorphosis was summed up by Carol Muske-Dukes in the New York Times Book Review Muske wrote that Rich began as a “polite copyist of Yeats and Auden, wife and mother. Her earliest work, including A Change of World (1951) which won the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Award, was formally exact and decorous, while her work of the late 1960s and 70s became increasingly radical in both its free-verse form and feminist and political content. Widely read and hugely influential, Rich’s career spanned seven decades and has hewed closely to the story of post-war American poetry itself. ![]() During her life, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was one of America’s foremost public intellectuals. ![]()
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