Antigone full story

Robert Bagg, born on 21 September 1935, grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. In high school he played varsity golf, JV football, and began to publish humorous sketches (modeled on those of Robert Benchley) in the school newspaper.

Impressed by the extreme poems, exotic personality, romantic adventures, and harsh death by drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bagg decided to make writing poetry and studying literature his lifetime calling. His parents did not disapprove, but sent him to Amherst College (his father's alma mater) thinking that its faculty would either endorse or discourage their son's chosen vocation. In college Bagg studied first with Walker Gibson and then with James Merrill, who told him to forget Shelley and his imaginary landscapes and write about the adventures of his suburban youth. He took their advice and wrote several narrative poems in iambic pentameter about boyhood pranks and adventures in his Sagamore Road neighborhood, one of which was made into a film by Richard Wechsler, who later became a Hollywood writer and producer. At Amherst Bagg alarmed Ro

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