Janet Lewis
Writer
August 17, 1899 – December 1, 1998
Credits:
Poems:
A Farewell; A
Gull-following Song; A Lullaby; A Lullaby; A Song for the Grandmother; A Song
for the Wife of Manibozho; At Carmel Highlands; Austerity; Child in a Garden; Country
Burial; Days; For Louise; Fossil; Geology; Helen Grown Old; Helen, the Sad
Queen; In the Woods; Lines with a Gift of Herbs; Manibush and the Grandmother; Old
Love; On an Old Woman Dying; Sunday Morning at the Artists' House; The April
Hill; The Clock; The End of the Age; The Hangar.
Books, music and
articles:
Against a Darkening Sky
(1943 / 1985); American Poetry Review, November/December (1981); Bookman (November,
1932); Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books (February 22, 1959); Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Volume 41 (1987); Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction,
winter (1964-65); Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1987 (1988); Good-Bye,
Son, and Other Stories (1946 / 1986); Keiko's Bubble (1961); Late Offerings
(1988); Librettist for "Easter Laudate," 1977, and "A Christmas
Canticle," 1978, (1981); Los Angeles Times Book Review (November 3, 1985);
Mulberry Street: An Opera (1981 / 1988); New York Times Book Review (October 2,
1932 / January 24, 1943 / April 8, 1951); Poems Old and New, 1918-1978 (1981); Poems,
1924-1944 (1950); Poetry (January, 1947); Southern Review (winter, 1966 / spring,
1980 / spring, 1982); The Ancient Ones: Poems (1979); The Birthday of the
Infanta: An Opera in One Act (1977 / 1979); The Dear Past and Other Poems ,1919–1994
(1994); The Earth-Bound, 1924-1944 (1946); The Friendly Adventures of Ollie
Ostrich (1923); The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959); The Indians in the Woods
(1922 / 1980); The Invasion: A Narrative of Events Concerning the Johnston
Family of St. Mary's (1932 / 1964); The Last of the Mohicans (1976 / 1978); The
Legend (1987 / 1987); The Swans: An Opera in Three Acts (1986); The Trial of
Soren Qvist (1947 / 1989); The Wheel in Midsummer (1927); The Wife of Martin
Guerre (1941 / 1970); The Wife of Martin Guerre: An Opera / aka The Wife: A
Libretto (For an Opera in Three Acts) (1956 / 1958 / 1988); Times Literary
Supplement (April 10, 1987); Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their
Lives and Careers (1983).
Movies and television:
The
Return of Martin Guerre (1982); Writers of Northern California (1990).
