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  1. Described by Kenneth Rexroth as “one of the most accomplished, one of the most influential” of the postwar American poets, Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led by Charles Olson, and the San Francisco Renaissance, whose other members included poets…

  2. Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco.

  3. Robert Duncan (born 27 July 1952) is an English actor. He is best known for his television role as Gus Hedges, the jargon-speaking manager, from Drop the Dead Donkey. He also appeared in Casualty as Peter Hayes between 1995 and 1996 and as Lazarus in the 2000 film The Miracle Maker.

  4. Born on January 7, 1919, in Oakland, California, Robert Duncan took an active role in emerging arts movements and communitites at the time—including Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, the San Francisco Renaissance and Black Mountain College—and developed a style uniquely his own.

  5. Robert Duncan (born January 7, 1919, Oakland, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1988, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets in the 1950s. Duncan attended the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936–38 and 1948–50.

  6. I first read Robert Duncan’s “Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” on a beautifully permissive afternoon in the spring shade of leafy deciduous trees on the campus of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. It was 1989.

  7. Few poets were as central to the postwar American poetry scene as Robert Duncan. He was a key figure of both the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain poets and carried on long (if sometimes combative) correspondences with avant-garde writers such as Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov.

  8. Robert Duncan McNeill. Actor: Masters of the Universe. Robert Duncan McNeill was born on November 9, 1964 in North Carolina, but raised in Washington, D.C. until his family finally settled down in Atlanta, Georgia.

  9. Jul 11, 2020 · Although the early books are significant achievements, Duncan’s reputation rests primarily on three major books of poetry published in the 1960s, The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, and Bending the Bow.

  10. Sep 18, 2012 · A new biography shows how the poet Robert Duncan fed a line backward into the labyrinthine history of human imagination.

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