Willis Barnstone
Auteur de The Other Bible
A propos de l'auteur
Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine. He attended Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale, earning his doctorate. Barnstone taught in Greece from 1949 to 1951, and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. He went to China during the Cultural Revolution, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American afficher plus Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University from 1984 to 1985. Barnstone has authored more than forty books, poetry collections, poetry translations, philosophical and religious texts. He is a former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and is in the Institute of Biblical and Literary Studies at Indiana University. He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation. Barnstone was also a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. His titles include The Complete Poems of Sappho,, Translated with an Introduction, Ancient Greek Lyrics, Love Poems, and Café de l'Aube à Paris, Dawn Café in Paris: Poems Composed in French and Their Translation in English. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Willis Barnstone
The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds by Barnstone, Willis Published… (2003) — Directeur de publication — 775 exemplaires
The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas (2009) — Traducteur — 68 exemplaires
Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia… (1993) — Editor and translator — 21 exemplaires
Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation (2017) — Traducteur — 17 exemplaires
To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light (1999) — Traducteur — 15 exemplaires
A Bird of Paper: Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (International Poetry Series) (1982) — Traducteur — 9 exemplaires
Literatures of Latin America 1 exemplaire
Spanish poetry, from its beginnings through the nineteenth century; an anthology (1970) 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1927-11-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Lewiston, Maine, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Beijing, China
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Études
- Bowdoin College (BA)
University of Paris (Sorbonne)
University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Columbia University (MA)
Yale University (PhD) - Professions
- poet
translator
distinguished professor emeritus (Comparative Literature and Spanish)
Biblical scholar - Relations
- Barnstone, Elli (wife)
Barnstone, Tony (son)
Barnstone, Aliki (daughter) - Organisations
- Wesleyan University
Colgate University
Indiana University
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- Œuvres
- 42
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 2,701
- Popularité
- #9,509
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 75
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1