![]() ![]() "At Eighty-Two" is the most absorbing of Ms. Sarton, like her friend Gwendolyn Brooks, achieved a largeness of spirit and a deservedly devoted following as she continued to develop as a writer. ![]() Few women poets of her generation and its successors wrote or died of natural causes. Her early career was shaped by her experiences in the Civic Repertory Theater in New York during the Depression, and travel in England, where she became one of Virginia Woolf's many friends and one of Elizabeth Bowen's many lovers. The daughter of George Sarton, a pioneering historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, a designer and painter, May Sarton came to America at 2 from her native Belgium, a refugee from World War I. As exercises in the genre, the journals rank with, and at times resemble, the work of Colette in their loving attention to plants and animals and their acute recording of emotion. Yet it is her eight journals, beginning in 1968 with "Plant Dreaming Deep," that will be her most enduring contribution to literature. Sarton wanted to be remembered as a poet. ![]() The author of 52 volumes of poetry, novels and works for children, Ms. $23 This is the last work of May Sarton, who died in July 1995 at the age of 83. "At Eighty Two: A Journal," by May Sarton. ![]()
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