Richard Hugo

Jiri Flajsar (Palacky University Olomouc)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia, Justin Parks, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
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 21 Dec 1923
Died 22 Oct 1982
Activity 1961-1982

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Richard Hugo (born Richard Franklin Hogan) was an American poet, novelist, and writing teacher. His poetry offers moving testimony of the struggle of an isolated, suffering self to find happiness by affirming humanity and sympathy with the failed, lonely, and dispossessed against the backdrop of the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, Montana, Italy, and the Isle of Skye.

Hugo was born in White Center, a working-class suburb of Seattle, on December 21, 1923. His father, Richard Franklin Hogan, left his mother, Esther Clara Monk Hogan, shortly after Hugo’s birth, and she left little Richard behind, in the care of her parents, Fred and Ora Monk. Even after Hugo’s mother remarried in 1927, she did not take Hugo to live with her. The poet remembers growing up feeling lonely, isolated, and

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Citation: Flajsar, Jiri. "Richard Hugo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 September 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14693, accessed 22 November 2024.]