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Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.
Sep 10, 2020 · Stevie Smith (1902-71) was one of the most distinctive and individual poets of the twentieth century. Born in Hull in England as Florence Smith, she was given the nickname ‘Stevie’ after a famous jockey of the time, because she was so small.
Although the nursery-rhyme-like cadences of her poems and the whimsical drawings with which she illustrated them suggest a child’s innocence, Stevie Smith was a sophisticated poet, whose work was much concerned with suffering and mortality.
Stevie Smith (born Sept. 20, 1902, Hull, Yorkshire, Eng.—died March 7, 1971, London) was a British poet who expressed an original and visionary personality in her work, combining a lively wit with penetrating honesty and an absence of sentiment.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 10, 2016 · British poet Stevie Smith became a national treasure in her own lifetime, but was it for all the wrong reasons? Born in 1902, she is famous for the title poem of her 1957 collection Not Waving...
Stevie Smith was a 20th-century English poet who was known for her nursery rhyme structure and cadence, playful meter, dark humorous tones, a variety of voices, and serious themes. She had a unique style that carved its way into the literary world.
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Her style is unique in its combination of seemingly prosaic statements, a variety of voices, playful meter, and a deep sense of irony. Smith was officially recognized with the Chomondeley Award for Poetry in 1966 and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1969. Smith died of a brain tumor on March 7, 1971. poems.
