Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)
Auteur de Modern American and Modern British Poetry
A propos de l'auteur
Karl Shapiro won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for V-Letter and Other Poems (1944). Born in Baltimore, he attended the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University. After service in the army, he was appointed consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1946 and joined the faculty of afficher plus Johns Hopkins. There he taught writing courses until his resignation in 1950 to become editor, for a period, of Poetry. Shapiro is an accomplished poet in a wide variety of styles. Like others of his generation, his early work displays a concern with life and institutions of modern society. His later work included a series of bold love poems, The White-Haired Lover (1968). Typical of critics' response to Shapiro is Ralph J. Mills, Jr.'s assessment of The Bourgeois Poet (1964), in which Shapiro "breaks with accepted metrical patterns to attempt a poetry of direct speech. . . ."The Bourgeois Poet' definitely has about it the air of a new imaginative release. Irony and social criticism are still there, but autobiography, invective, heavy doses of sexuality. . . and an occasional prophetic note are now blended together" (Contemporary American Poetry). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Karl Shapiro
Poets at Work: Essays Based on the Modern Poetry Collection at the Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo (1948) 12 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 79 No. 6, March 1952 3 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 80 No. 3, June 1952 2 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 3, June 1955 — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 80 No. 5, August 1952 2 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 78 No. 5, August 1951 2 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 81 No. 1, October 1952 2 exemplaires
Poetry Magazine Vol. 77 No. 3, December 1950 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 76 No. 3, June 1950 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 5, August 1955 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 79 No. 4, January 1952 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 79 No. 5, February 1952 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 80 No. 2, May 1952 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 77 No. 4, January 1951 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 76 No. 4, July 1950 1 exemplaire
American Poetry. INSCRIBED. 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 83 No. 1, October 1953 1 exemplaire
The place of love 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 76 No. 1, April 1950 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 6, September 1955 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 76 No. 5, August 1950 1 exemplaire
The House 1 exemplaire
Auto Wreck {poem} 1 exemplaire
Travelogue for Exiles 1 exemplaire
The place of love 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 4, July 1955 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 1, April 1955 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 77 No. 6, March 1951 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 81 No. 6, March 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 78 No. 1, April 1951 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 78 No. 2, May 1951 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 78 No. 3, June 1951 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 78 No. 4, July 1951 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 80 No. 1, April 1952 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 77 No. 2, November 1950 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 80 No. 4, July 1952 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 77 No. 1, October 1950 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 81 No. 2, November 1952 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 81 No. 4, January 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 81 No. 5, February 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 82 No. 3, June 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 85 No. 5, February 1955 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 82 No. 4, July 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 82 No. 5, August 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 82 No. 6, September 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 83 No. 2, November 1953 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 83 No. 5, February 1954 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 83 No. 6, March 1954 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 84 No. 1, April 1954 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 84 No. 2, May 1954 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 84 No. 3, June 1954 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 85 No. 1, October 1954 1 exemplaire
Poetry Magazine Vol. 85 No. 3, December 1954 1 exemplaire
Poems 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 917 exemplaires
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributeur — 406 exemplaires
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Reader's Bookshelf of Amercan Literature; a Home Education Program in American Literature: Six Volume Set: Keys to… (1960) 3 exemplaires
New poems 1944. An anthology of American and British verse with a selection of poems from the armed forces. (1944) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1913-11-10
- Date de décès
- 2000-05-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Prix et distinctions
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1946)
Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1969)
Robert Kirsch Award (1989)
Membres
Critiques
Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry,… par Louis Untermeyer
This was a treasured book of Ed’s. I had it rebound for him while I was at the Athenaeum.
Modern American & Modern British Poetry, 1955, ed. Louis Untermeyer. I doubt that these poems could still be considered modern, but among them you will find timeless ideas and beauty. I especially like the story poems. Frost’s, The Witch of Coos, and E. A. Robinson’s, Mr. Flood’s Party. Individual lines like; “Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you”, “but the rain is full of ghost’s tonight”, “human kind can not bear very much reality”, “Night or day, what’er befall / I must walk that desert land / Until I dare my fear and call / The lion out to lick my hand.”, “A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day” are a few of my favorites. Take this book to your local coffee shop and relax.… (plus d'informations)
I teach writing. I have read a lot of books about prosody but this is the one you want if you are interested in a full description of what a poem requires. By that I mean the full soundscape of this particular use of language and aesthetics. Karl Shapiro is the other author and contributed mightily but know this: there isn't any better introduction to the craft that fully rates the different contributions of sound and color and image than this. It is also beautifully written which is not necessarily what one can expect in a book on poetry. I will be using this as a handbook, wearing its pages well… (plus d'informations)
Possibly the best collection of modern poetry in the English language.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 92
- Aussi par
- 21
- Membres
- 950
- Popularité
- #27,088
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 39
- Favoris
- 3
