Culture & Religion — April 2, 2010

Dorothy Parker’s Poems

Dorothy Parker’s popularity may have been part of the reason that academia was slow to take up her poetry, writes R. S. Gwynn. But now even feminists have taken her into the literary canon.

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Dorothy Parker’s popularity may have been part of the reason that academia was slow to take up her poetry, writes R. S. Gwynn. But now even feminists have taken her into the literary canon. Gwynn looks at two recent editions of Parker’s verse that have been released, and at why Parker may have given up writing poems after a fashion.

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