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| | Robert Duncan |
 | | Duncan, Robert Edward (7 Jan. 1919 - 3 Feb. 1988), poet, was born Edward Howard Duncan in Oakland, California, the son of Edward Howard Duncan, a day laborer. |
 | | Duncan entered the University of California at Berkeley on a scholarship in 1936. |
 | | His reputation as a major poet was established in the 1960s in three collections, The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), and Bending the Bow (1968), which contain many of the enduring masterpieces of mythopoeic verse. |
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