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1. www.nytimes.com › 2018/06/24 › obituariesDonald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89

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   Jun 24, 2018 · Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the United States who found a universe of meaning in the apples, ox carts and ordinary folk of his beloved rural New England, died on Saturday at his home...

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3. www.legacy.com › news › celebrity-deathsDonald Hall dies 2018 at age 89 - Obituary - Legacy.com

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   Jun 24, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Hall, a prolific, award-winning poet and man of letters widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has...

4. www.npr.org › 2018/06/29 › 624642482Remembering Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall - NPR

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   On today's show, we remember Donald Hall, former poet laureate of the United States, who died last weekend at age 89. He lived for most of his life in a 19th century farmhouse in rural...

5. www.harvardmagazine.com › 2021 › 12The Poet of Old Age - Harvard Magazine

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   Donald Hall ’51, who died in 2018 a few months shy of 90, was one of the rare poets with the opposite destiny: he was born to write about aging and being old.

6. www.pbs.org › newshour › artsA poem to remember Donald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate - PBS

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   Former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, a candid, unaffected writer who examined love, loss and rural American life, died Saturday at the age of 89. Hall said he saw no reason to spend life...

7. www.washingtonpost.com › local › obituariesDonald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate who wrote of nature ...

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   Jun 24, 2018 · Donald Hall, a former U.S. poet laureate who drew on his years of living in the woods of New England to craft plain-spoken poems centered on natural beauty and personal loss, died June 23 at...

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   Who is Donald Hall?

   • Poet Donald Hall poses for a portrait at his home in Wilmot, N.H. Photo by Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet’s abiding reverence for nature.

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   Was Donald Hall a good poet?

   • Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet’s abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career.

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   What awards did Donald Hall receive?

   • In addition to the poet laureate position, Hall was awarded many honors, including two Guggenheim fellowships, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation.

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   Who is Donald Andrew Hall Jr?

   • Wasn’t that fun?” Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was born on Sept. 20, 1928, in New Haven, the only child of Donald and Lucy (Wells) Hall. Mr. Hall wrote in his memoir, “Unpacking the Boxes,” that his father had been desperately unhappy in the family dairy business and had insisted that his son follow his own desires.

   Donald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89

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9. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › donald-hallDonald Hall | The Poetry Foundation

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   Poet Donald Hall poses for a portrait at his home in Wilmot, N.H. Photo by Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation.