“The Red Crown” (1922) is told by the inmate of a sanitarium, who appears to have had a nervous breakdown over the death of his brother, an officer in the White army.
Mary Oliver was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2007 The NYT described her as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet.”
George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He’s best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life.
