Helen Hoyt

Helen Lyman commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman (January 22, 1887–August 2, 1972) [cite web
title= California Death Records
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accessmonthday= April 13
accessyear= 2005] was an American poet.

Life and work

She was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, January 22, 1887, [cite web | title="Biography of Helen Hoyt" | work=Biographical Notes from The Second Book Of Modern Verse | url=http://www.bartleby.com/271/1001.html | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005] [cite web | title=Old Poetry | work=Old Poetry - Authors - Helen Hoyt | url=http://oldpoetry.com/authors/Helen%20Hoyt | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005] and educated at Barnard College. Her niece was Elinor Wylie, [cite book|author=Taylor, Georgina|title=H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers 1913-1946: Talking Women|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=76|isbn=ISBN 0198187130] and her father was Henry M. Hoyt, a governor of Pennsylvania. At some point she married William Whittingham Lyman Jr, and so also became known either as Mrs. W.W. Lyman [cite web | title=Office of Historic Preservation | work=Office of Historic Preservation - Napa Landmarks: County Listing | url=http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21442 | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005] or Helen Hoyt Lyman.

Career

Early in her career she was an Associate Editor of the journal "Poetry", and also had numerous articles and poems published within the magazine from 1913 to 1936. She also edited the September 1916 edition of "", [cite web | title="Biography of Helen Hoyt" | work=Biographical Notes from The Second Book Of Modern Verse | url=http://www.bartleby.com/271/1001.html | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005] the woman's number. Other magazines to publish her work include "The Egoist" and "The Masses". [cite web | title=Historical Index | work=Historical Index of Poetry Magazine | url=http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/historic.h.html | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005]

Aside from her own collections, her work was also published in notable anthologies of her times, including "The New Poetry: An Anthology" (1917), "The Second Book of Modern Verse" (1920) , "Silver Pennies: Modern Poems for Boys and Girls" (1925), "May Days" (1926), and "The Best Poems of 1931". [cite web | title=Historical Index | work=Historical Index of Poetry Magazine | url=http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/historic.h.html | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005]

Her poems include "Ellis Park", "Memory", "Lamp Posts" and "Rain At Night".

In 1932, she wrote the foreword to "California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries," [House of Henry Harrison, editors] .

She was a contemporary of Marianne Moore and Mina Loy, among others.

She was known to entertain correspondence with Idella Purnell Stone and Clark Ashton Smith.

Authored Publications

*cite book | author=Hoyt, Helen | title=Apples Here in My Basket | location=New York | publisher=Harcourt, Brace and Company | year=1924 | id=
*cite book | author=Hoyt, Helen | title=Leaves Of Wild Grape | location=New York | publisher=Harcourt, Brace and Company | year=1929 | id=
*cite book | author=Hoyt, Helen | title=Poems Of Amis | publisher= Los Angeles | year=1946 | id=

Quotation

"At present most of what we know, or think we know, of women has been found out by men, we have yet to hear what woman will tell of herself, and where can she tell more intimately than in poetry?" ' in 1916 [cite book | author=William Drake | title=The First Wave, Women Poets in America 1915-1945 | publisher=Macmillan | year=1987 | id=ISBN 0-02-533490-5] [cite web | title="endnotes" | work=(October, 1989) HOW(ever) 5"' (4)| url=http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/end1089.html | accessmonthday=April 13 | accessyear=2005]

References

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/265/ The New Poetry: An Anthology at Bartleby.com]

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