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    Angela Manalang Gloria was a Filipino lyric poet, pianist, and editor born in 1907 in Pampanga. She studied at schools run by Benedictine sisters and graduated summa cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a degree in philosophy in 1929. While at UP, she worked as a literary editor for the Philippine Collegian. She published a collection of poems in 1940 titled Poems and one of her poems protested against marital rape. Gloria made contributions to Philippine literature through her poetry and editing before shifting to business later in life. She died in 1995.

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    Angela Manalang Gloria was a Filipino lyric poet, pianist, and editor born in 1907 in Pampanga. She studied at schools run by Benedictine sisters and graduated summa cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a degree in philosophy in 1929. While at UP, she worked as a literary editor for the Philippine Collegian. She published a collection of poems in 1940 titled Poems and one of her poems protested against marital rape. Gloria made contributions to Philippine literature through her poetry and editing before shifting to business later in life. She died in 1995.

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    Philippine Literature
    BS Arch 3A WMSU

    Who is Angela Manalang Gloria?

    Angela Caridad Legaspi Manalang was a lyric poet, pianist, and editor. Angela was born
    on August 2, 1907 in Guagua, Pampanga to parents, Felipe Dizon Manalang and Tomasa Legaspi.
    However, their family later settled in the Bicol region, particularly in Albay.

    She started her early schooling with the Benedictine Sisters in Albay, and in Manila
    continued under the tutelage of the same religious order. She then transferred to another girls'
    school, Sta. Scholastica, and graduated valedictorian in 1925. After graduation from high school
    she proceeded to UP and started taking pre-law subjects, at the same time going into painting.
    C. V. Wickers, a member of the UP faculty, noticed her creative work and advised her to change
    her program of study. She shifted her course to the liberal arts and graduated summa cum laude
    with an A.B. in philosophy in 1929.

    In UP she worked with the Philippine Collegian as a literary editor, with Celedonio P.
    Gloria as editor-in-chief. Their friendship culminated in marriage. She became editor of the
    Herald Mid-Week Magazine but had to resign six months later because of poor health, when she
    contracted tuberculosis. WWII came and her husband died. Her creative writing gradually
    diminished.

    From the idealist, she emerged a pragmatist, a practical woman reshaped by the
    realities of life. She had found that life is not all love, that love is not the only way to one's goal.
    plunged into business and traveled and prospered. But Philippine literature lost her.

    She was the author of the poetry collection , Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised
    in 1950). The collection contained the best of her early work as well as unpublished poems
    written between 1934-1938. Poems (1940) was, in 1987, the only partial collection of her
    notable poems. She is essentially a lyric poet voicing her moods and desires in musical, singing
    stanzas. She finds standard rime and rhythm adequate to her needs.

    She was also the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape,
    which caused her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth
    Literary Awards in 1940. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City Street can also be found in
    the collection. The book “Poems” was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing
    to Rafael Zulueta y da Costa’s verse Like the Molave.

    Angela Manalang-Gloria died in 1995.

    Vocabulary from the poem “To A Lost One” by Angela Manalang Gloria

    1. Haunt - a place frequently visited


    2. Twilight - a state of uncertainty, vagueness, or gloom.
    3. Linger - to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected.
    4. Phantom - an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image,
    mirage, or optical illusion.
    5. Sill - the horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening.

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