Refimprove date January 2008 Arthur Yvor Winters 17 October 1900 25 January 1968 was an American poet and literary critic . As modernist Winters s early poetry, which appeared in small avant garde magazines alongside work by writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein , was written in the modernist poetry modernist idiom, and was heavily influenced both by Native Americans in United States Native American poetry and by Imagism . His essay, The Testament of a Stone , gives an account of his poetics during this early period. Around 1930, he turned away from modernism and developed an Augustan style of writing, notable for its clarity of statement and its formality of rhyme and rhythm. As critic Winters s critical style was comparable to that of F. R. Leavis , and in the same way he created a school ..., Hopkins, Frost 1959 The Early Poems of Yvor Winters , 1920 1928 1966 Forms of Discovery Critical ... 1976 The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters with an introduction by Donald Davie 1978 Uncollected Poems 1919 1928 1997 Uncollected Poems 1929 1957 1997 Yvor Winters Selected Poems 2003 edited by Thom Gunn ... Yvor Winters s alternative canon of Elizabethan poetry References reflist The Complex of Yvor Winters Criticism 1973 Richard J. Sexton Hart Crane and Yvor Winters 1978 Thomas Francis Parkinson An Introduction to the Poetry of Yvor Winters 1981 Elizabeth Isaacs Language as Being in the Poetry of Yvor Winters 1980 Grosvenor Powell Wisdom and Wilderness The Achievement of Yvor Winters 1983 Dick Davis ... pages accessdate language External links http www.yvorwinters.blogspot.com Yvor Winters The American Literary Rhadamanthus an Yvor Winters blog http www.jottings.ca john voices winters.html Winters, Leavis, and Language Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Winters, Yvor ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... 1968 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Winters, Yvor Category 1900 births Category 1968 deaths Category ... de Yvor Winters es Yvor Winters it Yvor Winters pt Yvor Winters ... more details
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Kenneth Fields is an American poet and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. Bibliography Poetry The Other Walker Sunbelly Smoke The Odysseus Manuscripts Anemographia A Treatise on the Wind Classic Rough News Music from Another Room Novels Father of Mercies Anthologies Quest for Reality An Anthology of Short Poems in English 1969 , with Yvor Winters Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fields, Kenneth ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fields, Kenneth Category American poets Category Stanford University faculty Category Living people US poet stub ... more details
Maurice Lesemann 28 November 1899 &ndash 2 October 1981 was a United States poet. Lesemann was born in Chicago, the son of a Methodist clergyman. He studied at the University of Chicago where he served as president of the University of Chicago Poetry Club Poetry Club , several of whose members &mdash including Lesemann &mdash were published in early numbers of the magazine Poetry magazine Poetry . Before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, he travelled to New Mexico to visit Yvor Winters and Glenway Wescott , and spent some time in teaching in the town of Cerrillos . After graduating he went into advertising. He married in 1926. Prizes 1920 Poetry Chicago s Young Poet s Prize Witter Bynner Poetry Prize 1927 Levinson Prize Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lesemann, Maurice ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 28 November 1899 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2 October 1981 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lesemann, Maurice Category 1899 births Category 1981 deaths Category American poets poetry stub ... more details
other persons Katherine Davis Infobox writer name Catherine Davis birth date 1924 death date 2002 Catherine Davis 1924 2002 was an Poetry of the United States American poet . She studied poetry with J. V. Cunningham and, at Stanford University , with Yvor Winters . Her work is considered extraordinary by some writers and critics, but because of her physical disabilities and other problems she died without the recognition and reputation she deserved. External links http www.stanfordalumni.org news magazine 2008 marapr show davis.html Stanford Magazine article on Catherine Davis http news.stanford.edu news 2008 april23 davis 042308.html Stanford University news release on Catherine Davis Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Davis, Catherine ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1924 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2002 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Davis, Catherine Category 1924 births Category 2002 deaths Category American poets ... more details
University of Chicago Poetry Club , a group formed in 1917 in poetry 1917 by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the University of Chicago curriculum. Members included Glenway Wescott , George Dillon , Elizabeth Madox Roberts , Yvor Winters , Llewellyn Jones , Maurice Lesemann , Janet Lewis , Gladys Campbell , and Kathleen Foster Campbell . Harriet Monroe , the founder and editor of Poetry magazine Poetry , visited the group often. Gladys Campbell and George Dillon were among the editors of the Poetry Club s publication, The Forge A Journal of Verse , published from 1924 to 1929. References Campbell, Gladys. Some Recollections of the Poetry Club at the University of Chicago, Poetry , Volume 105, October 1964, Page 50. External links http hdl.handle.net 10079 fa beinecke.campbellg Gladys Campbell Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http hdl.handle.net 10079 fa beinecke.jonesl Llewellyn Jones Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http hdl.handle.net 10079 fa beinecke.campbellkf Kathleen Foster Campbell Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Category University of Chicago Poetry Club Category Poetry organizations ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2008 The Faber Book of Modern American Verse was a poetry anthology edited by W. H. Auden , and published in London in 1956 by Faber and Faber . Auden had moved from the UK to the USA in 1939, and had been directly involved in the American poetry scene, particularly through his time spent on the Yale Younger Poets . Poets in the Faber Book of Modern American Verse valign top L onie Adams James Agee Conrad Aiken Stephen Vincent Ben t John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop John Peale Bishop Richard Blackmur Louise Bogan James Broughton Witter Bynner Tristram Coffin poet Tristram Coffin Hart Crane Stephen Crane E. E. Cummings H. D. Edwin Denby poet Edwin Denby Robert Duncan poet Robert Duncan Richard Eberhart Paul Engel Robert Fitzgerald John Gould Fletcher Robert Francis Robert Frost Walker Gibson Samuel Greenberg Horace Gregory Howard Griffin Anthony Hecht John Holmes poet Robert Horan Rolfe Humphries Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers Chester Kallman Stanley Kunitz Janet Lewis Vachel Lindsay Robert Lowell Phyllis McGinley Archibald MacLeish Don Marquis Edgar Lee Masters Thomas Merton Josephine Miles Edna St. Vincent Millay Marianne Moore Merrill Moore Samuel French Morse Ogden Nash Dorothy Parker Kenneth Patchen Ezra Pound Dachine Rainer John Crowe Ransom Kenneth Rexroth Edwin Arlington Robinson Theodore Roethke Carl Sandburg Delmore Schwartz Winfield Townley Scott Karl Shapiro Theodore Spencer Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Trumbull Stickney Allen Tate Louis Untermeyer Mark Van Doren Peter Viereck Jos Garcia Villa Robert Penn Warren John Hall Wheelock John Brooks Wheelwright Richard Wilbur Oscar Williams William Carlos Williams Edmund Wilson Yvor Winters Elinor Wylie Marya Zaturenska See also 1956 in poetry 1956 in literature American poetry English poetry List of poetry anthologies Category Poetry anthologies ... more details
For places Winters, California Winters, Texas Winters is a surname , and may refer to the following people Men Alan Winters , L.Alan Winters , a British development economist Brian Winters born 1952 , a former player and head coach in the NBA Charles Winters died 1984 , American who smuggled B 17 bombers to Israel in 1948 Dean Winters born 1964 , an American television actor Frank Winters born 1964 , a former center in the NFL Frank Winters ice hockey Frank Coddy Winters 1884&ndash 1944 , an ice hockey player John D. Winters , 1916 1997 , historian Jonathan Winters born 1925 , an American comedic actor Mike & Bernie Winters Mike born 1930, Bernie 1932 1991 , a double act of British Comedians Mike Winters born 1958 , an umpire in Major League Baseball Richard Winters 1918 2011 , an officer with the 506th Infantry Regiment United States 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II Robbie Winters born 1974 , a Scottish footballer Robert Winters 1910 1969 , a former Canadian politician Yvor Winters 1900 1968 , an American literary critic and poet Women Anne Winters , a leftist American poet Gloria Winters 1931 2010 , an American television actress Keelin Winters born 1988 , American footballer and daughter of Brian Winters Lisa Winters born 1937 , an American model and December 1956 Playboy Playmate Playmate of the Month Mickey Winters born 1940 , an American model and September 1962 Playmate of the Month Talia Winters , a fictional character on the science fiction television show Babylon 5 Shelley Winters 1920 2006 , a two time Academy Award winning American actress Victoria Winters , a fictional character in the cult classic series Dark Shadows See also Winter surname Winterson Surname de Winters fr Winters nl Winters ja pl Winters pt Winters ru vo Winters ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Hound & Horn , originally subtitled a Harvard University Harvard Miscellany , was a literary quarterly founded by Harvard University Harvard undergrads Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry in 1927. At the time, the college s literary magazine The Harvard Advocate did not accept their work, so they convinced Kirstein s father, the president of Filene s Filene s Department Store in Boston , to fund the launch of their own literary magazine. Modeled on T. S. Eliot s The Criterion , it was intended to focus on student life at the university and work submitted by its students and famous literary Harvard University Harvard alumni. Later on in its run, the publication broadened in scope to include many modern writers. The title of the magazine was taken from Ezra Pound s poem The White Stag Tis the white stag Fame we re hunting, bid the world s hounds come to horn. Contributions were made by writers such as Gertrude Stein , Katherine Ann Porter and a young Elizabeth Bishop . In 1928, R.P. Blackmur became the magazine s first managing editor, staying until 1930 when he resigned. Yvor Winters served as a regional editor. In 1930, the magazine moved headquarters to New York . It ceased publication in 1934 when Kirstein decided to fund George Balanchine and the newly established School of American Ballet . It was the first to publish several writers who would later become famous Citation needed date February 2011 , and to publish articles that would be historically significant, such as The Reappearance of photography by Walker Evans in 1931. ref The text is reprinted at http www.masters of photography.com E evans evans articles4.html ref Years after the journal s demise, Ralph de Toledano approached Kirstein about reviving it. Despite initial interest by Kirstein, the project never came to fruition. Reflist Category Defunct American literary magazines Category American student magazines Category Publications established in 1927 Category Publications di ... more details
Noref date March 2012 Gorham Bockhaven Munson May 26, 1896 August 15, 1969 was an United States American literary critic . Gorham was born in Amityville, New York Amityville , New York to Hubert Barney Munson and Carrie Louise Morrow. He received his Bachelor of Arts B.A. degree from Wesleyan University in 1917. He married Elizabeth Hurwitz on April 2, 1921 Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn . Gorham died on August 15, 1969 at Hartford, Connecticut Hartford , Connecticut , and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Camden, Maine Camden , Maine . Gorham became a part of the Greenwich Village scene of avant garde writers. In 1922 he founded and edited, with Matthew Josephson August 1922 January 1923 and Kenneth Burke January September 1923 as co editors, the eight issues of the literary review Secession spring 1922 April 1924 . Its contributors included Malcolm Cowley , Hart Crane , E. E. Cummings , Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens , William Carlos Williams and Yvor Winters . He joined the faculty of The New School in 1927 and spent the remainder of his career as an academic. Who s Who in America Volume V, 1969 73 lists Gorham as author of twelve books and three others on which he collaborated or was the editor. He was also a free lance journalist whose articles appeared in Saturday Review US magazine Saturday Review , The Atlantic Monthly , and Yale Review . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Munson, Gorham ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1896 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1969 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Munson, Gorham Category 1896 births Category 1969 deaths Category American literary critics Category Wesleyan University alumni it Gorham Munson ... more details
John Matthias is an American poet. He was born in Columbus, Ohio , in 1941 and attended the Ohio State University and Stanford University . At Stanford he studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters , but did not conform to Winters stringent anti modernist position. In fact, Matthias became deeply interested in modernism, especially English modernism, which he came to know well during many years of residence in England. His peers at Stanford included two future poets laureate of the United States, Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky , as well as the poets Ken Fields, James McMichael, and John Peck. Influences include John Berryman , Ezra Pound , and perhaps most importantly, the Anglo Welsh poet David Jones, on whose work Matthias has edited two books. Matthias books include Bucyrus, 1970 Turns 1975 Crossing 1979 Northern Summer 1984 A Gathering of Ways 1991 Beltane at Aphelion 1995 Swimming at Midnight 1995 Pages 2000 Working Progress, Working Title 2002 and New Selected Poems 2004 and Kedging 2007 . In 2004 an issue of Samizdat poetry magazine was devoted to commentary on his work. Major scholarly works on Matthias poetry include the books Word Play Place Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias 1998 edited by Robert Archambeau and The Salt Companion to John Matthias 2011 edited by Joe Francis Doerr. Matthias excels in the writing of longer poems, and works in a new version of the modernist idiom. He has also translated the work of several Swedish poets, including Jesper Svenbro , and the Serbian epic poem The Battle of Kosovo. References Archambeau, Robert, ed. Word Play Place Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias. Athens, Ohio Swallow Press Ohio University Press, 1998. External links http www.saltpublishing.com shop Matthias John.php John Matthias author page at Salt Publishing Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Matthias, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Matthias, John Categ ... more details
Howard Baker born Howard Wilson Baker, Jr. April 5, 1905 July 1990 was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Baker was born in Philadelphia . He did graduate work in English at Stanford University , where he befriended Yvor Winters and was co editor of the literary magazine Gyroscope . After getting his master s degree, he moved to Paris to pursue his studies at the Sorbonne . There he married the novelist Dorothy Baker and met and was influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford , who helped him to publish his first work, the autobiographical novel Orange Valley 1931 . After returning to the United States in 1931, he took a position teaching English at University of California, Berkeley Berkeley . From 1937 to 1943 he taught English at Harvard University Harvard . Besides collaborations with his wife, his writings include the poetry collections Letter from the Country 1941 and Ode to the Sea 1954 , as well as a collection of essays on Ancient Greece ancient Greek culture, Persephone s Cave Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks 1979 . Sources http www.authorandbookinfo.com cgi bin auth.pl?B000551 Author and Bookinfo.com Research resources http www.oac.cdlib.org findaid ark 13030 tf0199n45j The papers of Dorothy and Howard Baker, 1926 1990 33 linear ft. are housed in the http library.stanford.edu depts spc spc.html Department of Special Collections and University Archives at http library.stanford.edu Stanford University Libraries External links http www sul.stanford.edu depts hasrg ablit amerlit baker.html Dorothy and Howard Baker bios from Stanford Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Baker, Howard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1905 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1990 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Baker, Howard Category 1905 births Category 1990 deaths Category American poets Category Stanford University alumni Category University of Paris alumni Category University of California, Berkeley faculty Categor ... more details
Infobox film name The Vampire Happening image size image The Vampire Happening FilmPoster.jpeg caption director Freddie Francis producer Pier A. Caminnecci producer writer Karl Heinz Hummel writer br August Rieger writer narrator starring See below music Jerry van Rooyen cinematography G rard Vandenberg editing Alfred Srp distributor released 1971 runtime 102 minutes country West Germany language German budget gross preceded by followed by website The Vampire Happening German Gebissen wird nur nachts is a 1971 West Germany West German film directed by Freddie Francis . Plot An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania . What she does not know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary. Cast Pia Degermark as Betty Williams Clarimonde Thomas Hunter as Jens Larsen Yvor Murillo as Josef Ingrid van Bergen as Miss Niessen Joachim Kemmer as Martin Oskar Wegrostek as Abt Ferdy Mayne as Count Dracula Lyvia Bauer as Gabrielle Daria Damar as Kirsten Kay Williams Michael Janisch Toni Wagner Raoul Retzer Soundtrack Empty section date March 2010 External links IMDb title id 0065762 title Gebissen wird nur nachts Freddie Francis DEFAULTSORT Vampire Happening, The Category 1971 films Category West German films Category 1970s horror films Category Comedy horror films Category German language films Category Vampires in film 1970s horror film stub ... more details
, Emily Bront , Stephen Crane, B. Traven, Pauline R age, Yvor Winters, Northrop Frye, Swift, J.L. ... Viewed Writings on Twentieth Century Photography 1979 condensed NA Winters Summa, review article on Yvor ... 1970 Yvor Winters the Perils of Mind, Centennial Review, 14 1970 NA Leavis and Winters Professional ... more details
Image H. T. Kirby Smith.jpg right thumb H.T. or Tom Kirby Smith born 1938 is an United States American author and poet. Life H.T. Kirby Smith grew up on the Cumberland Plateau, in Sewanee, Tennessee . He received his B.A. from Sewanee an M.A. from Harvard and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford , where he studied with Yvor Winters . He was also a Fulbright scholar in Dijon, France . He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for many years, where he was also one of the founding editors of the Greensboro Review . He has published several books including a guide to U.S. observatories, a book on the philosopher George Santayana , a book that examines free verse poetry and one on the emergence of poetry from music. His poetry and essays have been published in the Southern Review , the Sewanee Review , the Virginia Quarterly Review , Shenandoah magazine Shenandoah , Poetry magazine Poetry , the Mountain Goat , the Southern Poetry Review , Ploughshares , ref http www.pshares.org authors author detail.cfm?authorID 830 ref and the Hudson Review and he has served on the board of editors of Versification . His chapbook of poems, The Musical Constellations , was published by Unicorn Press in the fall of 2007. Among his former students is Claudia Emerson , the 2006 Pulitzer prize winner for poetry. His online poetry tutorials have been used widely by poetry teachers for almost a decade. Works U.S. Observatories A Directory and Travel Guide Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976 . ISBN 0442244509 cloth ISBN 0442244517 paper The Origins of Free Verse University of Michigan Press, 1996 . ISBN 0472106988 cloth ISBN 0472085654 paper A Philosophical Novelist George Santayana and The Last Puritan Southern Illinois University Press,1997 . ISBN 0809321130 cloth The Celestial Twins Poetry and Music Through the Ages University of Massachusetts Press, 1999 . ISBN 1558492259 cloth The Musical Constellations Unicorn Press, 2007 . ISBN 0877753385 cloth ISBN 0877753393 paper Tu ... more details
Edgar Bowers March 2, 1924 February 4, 2000 was an United States American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989. Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia in 1924. During World War II he joined the military and served in Counter intelligence against Germany . He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950 and did graduate work in English literature at Stanford University . Bowers published several books of poetry, including The Form of Loss, For Louis Pasteur , and The Astronomers. He won two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Foundation , and taught at Duke University and the University of California, Santa Barbara . In Bowers s obituary, the English poet Clive Wilmer wrote, The title poem of his 1990 collection, For Louis Pasteur, announces his key loyalties. He confessed to celebrating every year the birthdays of three heroes Pasteur, Mozart and Paul Val ry, all of whom suggest admiration for the life of the mind lived at its highest pitch a concern for science and its social uses, and a love of art that is elegant, cerebral and orderly. That is one part of Bowers. Another aspect is picked up by Thom Gunn on the back of Bowers s Collected Poems Bowers started with youthful stoicism, but the feeling is now governed by an increasing acceptance of the physical world. That physical world encompasses sex and love, which are refracted through his restrained and lapidary lines. The effect of this contrast is striking at once balanced and engaged detached but acutely aware of sensual satisfactions. The style owes much to the artistic ethos of Yvor Winters , under whom Bowers studied at Stanford, but his achievement far surpasses that of his mentor, and his other students, such as J. V. Cunningham . He often wrote in rhyme, but also produced some of the finest blank verse in the English language. He wrote very little his Collected Poems weighs in at 168 pages , due no doubt to the careful consideration ... more details
Floral Decorations for Bananas is a poem from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium poetry collection Harmonium 1923 . It was first published Measure 26 Apr. 1923 ref Cook, p. 55 ref and is therefore under copyright, however it is quoted here as justified by fair use in order to facilitate scholarly commentary. The poem s speaker is unhappy about the choice of bananas as a table decoration, complaining that they don t match well with the eglantine and are suitable only for a room of women who are all shanks and bangles and slatted eyes. Recommended instead are plums in an eighteen century dish, centering a room in which there would be women of primrose and purl. align right border 1 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 style margin left 1em style margin bottom 1em align left style background lightyellow Floral Decorations for Bananas p Well, nuncle, this plainly won t do. br These insolent, linear peels br And sullen, hurricane shapes br Won t do with your eglantine. br They require something serpentine. br Blunt yellow in such a room You should have had plums tonight, br In an eighteenth century dish, br And pettifogging buds, br For the women of primrose and purl br Each one in her decent curl. br Good God What a precious light But bananas hacked and hunched.... br The table was set by an ogre, br His eye on an outdoor gloom br And a stiff and noxious place. br Pile the bananas on planks. br The women will be all shanks br And bangles and slatted eyes. And deck the bananas in leaves br Plucked from the Carib trees br Fibrous and dangling down, br Oozing cantankerous gum br Out of their purple maws, br Darting out of their purple craws br Their musky and tingling tongues. br This poem finds Stevens, Harmonium poetry collection the cool master as Yvor Winters described him, in warm good humor ... more details
Roger Dickinson Brown is an American poet , author and teacher, ref Poetry Pilot, New York, New York, April 1975, p. 9. ref born in 1944, who writes in English and French. After studying under Yvor Winters at Stanford University , he published and broadcast poems, criticism and reviews Song, The Southern Review , World Order, WONO FM in the 1970s, and now lives in France . ref The Southern Review, Winter, 1978. ref In 1975, the poet Robert Hayden wrote that Dickinson Brown is a gifted poet who has begun to attract favorable attention, and that he has distinguished himself as a teacher of creative writing and modern poetry. ref World Order, Summer 1975, p. 74. ref The entire book length series Jonathan A Death Miscellany was broadcast over WONO FM New York in April 1976. During that broadcast Dickinson Brown argued that most poets write too much, and indicated that he wished to leave only a small number of poems at his death. At about the same time, he stopped publishing his work in literary reviews and journals, and more or less entirely withdrew from conventional publication. Some of Dickinson Brown s usually short poems are written in experimental mostly French style syllabic Meter poetry meters , ref The Southern Review, Autumn, 1977. ref but most are classical in both form and subject. They are often written in the plain language plain style and were evidently influenced by the epigram matic tradition of Catullus , Martial whom he translates and J. V. Cunningham , including their social satire and sometimes risqu humor. The most frequent themes are loneliness , Ageing age , love , death , physics and religion . The French poems are all epigrams. Published works Poetry Jonathan A Death Miscellany 1974 The Dilapidated Heart Poems 1965 2003 2004 Bread and Wine Poems 1988 2009 2009 Catullus & Martial Translations & Imitations 2011 Prose Three French Murder Mysteries 2005 Notes pour mes petits enfants Notes for My Grandchildren bilingual French English 2008 Other wo ... more details
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Use dmy dates date March 2012 Use British English date March 2012 Donald Alfred Davie 17 July 1922 18 September 1995 was an English Movement literature Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Biography Davie was born in Barnsley , Yorkshire, England, a son of Baptist parents. He began his education at Barnsley Hogate Grammar school, and he later attended St Catharine s College, Cambridge St. Catharine s College , in Cambridge. His studies there were interrupted by service during the war in the Royal Navy in Arctic Russia, where he taught himself the language. In the last year of the war, in Devon, he married Doreen John. ref Schmidt, Michael Lives of the Poets , p 727. Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. ref ref Schmidt, Michael The Great Modern Poets , p149. Quercus, 2006. ref After returning to Cambridge, he continued his studies and received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. He returned to Cambridge in 1958, and in 1964 was made the first Professor of English at the new University of Essex. He taught English at the University of Essex from 1964 until 1968, when he moved to Stanford University, where he succeeded Yvor Winters . In 1978, he relocated to Vanderbilt University , where he taught until his retirement in 1988. He often wrote on the technique of poetry, both in books such as Purity of Diction in English Verse , and in smaller articles such as Donald Davie s Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse . Davie s criticism and poetry are both characterized by his interest in modernist and pre modernist techniques. Davie claimed there is no necessary connection between the poetic vocation on the one hand, and on the other exhibitionism, egoism, and licence . ref Schmidt, Michael The Great Modern Poets , p 149. Quercus, 2006. ref He writes eloquently and sympathetically about British modernist poetry in Under Briggflatts , while in Thomas Hardy and British Poetry he defends ... more details
Gerald Graff is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago . He received his B.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University in 1963. ref name Biography cite web last Graff first Gerald authorlink Gerald Graff title Biography date 2004 02 04 url http tigger.uic.edu ggraff bio index.htm accessdate 2006 12 12 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20061109211711 http tigger.uic.edu ggraff bio index.htm Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2006 11 09 ref He has taught at the University of New Mexico , Northwestern University , the University of California at Irvine and at Berkeley, as well as Ohio State University , Washington University , and the University of Chicago . He has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000. ref name Biography Graff s earlier works emphasized literature s rational, discursive qualities, and in Literature Against Itself 1979 he took aim at what he saw as the anti mimetic, irrationalist assumptions underlying both avant garde writing and structuralist poststructuralist critical theory. Graff s emphasis on literature as rational statement bears comparison with the theories of Yvor Winters , his professor at Stanford in the 1960s. Graff s later research has a heavy focus on pedagogy . He has discussed things like his own dislike of books at an early age and the way in which academic discourse is needlessly obscure. Dr. Graff is also the founder of Teachers for a Democratic Culture , an organization dedicated, in their words, to combating conservative misrepresentations of college pedagogy. Graff coined the term teach the controversy in his college courses in the 1980s and later set the idea in print in his 1993 book Beyond The Culture Wars http www.amazon.com gp product 0393311139 . Graff s thesis was that college instructors should teach the conflicts around academic issues so that students may understand how kn ... more details
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