Reed Whittemore (1919–2012)
Auteur de William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey
A propos de l'auteur
Reed Whittemore was born Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. in New Haven, Connecticut on September 11, 1919. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. He co-founded a literary magazine Furioso while attending Yale. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces. He was a afficher plus member of the faculty of Carleton College in Minnesota for nearly two decades before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland from 1968 to 1984. He was the literary editor of The New Republic from 1969 to 1973. He wrote numerous collections of poetry including Heroes and Heroines (1946), The Self-Made Man (1959), and The Feel of Rock: Poems of Three Decades (1982). He also wrote several non-fiction works including William Carlos Williams, Poet from Jersey (1975), Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate (1993), and Against the Grain (2007). He served as the poet laureate of the United States from 1964 to 1965 and from 1984 to 1985. He died on April 6, 2012 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Reed Whittemore
William Carlos Williams : "the happy genius of the household" : a centennial lecture, delivered at the Library of… (1984) 5 exemplaires
Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate (1992) 5 exemplaires
Poems: New and Selected 4 exemplaires
The self-made man and other poems 4 exemplaires
Heroes & heroines, poems by Reed Whittemore 2 exemplaires
The boy from Iowa; poems and essays 2 exemplaires
An American takes a walk, and other poems 2 exemplaires
Ways of misunderstanding poetry 1 exemplaire
Poems 1 exemplaire
Poets and anthologists : a look at the current poet-packaging process : a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress… (1986) 1 exemplaire
Boy from Iowa: Poems and Essays 1 exemplaire
The Little magazine and contemporary literature; a symposium held at the Library of Congress, 2 and 3 April, 1965 1 exemplaire
The Carleton Miscellany Fall 1961 1 exemplaire
The Self-Made Man 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
New World Writing #13: Stories, Poetry, Essays, Drama (1958) — Directeur de publication — 4 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
- Nom légal
- Whittemore, Edward Reed, Jr
- Date de naissance
- 1919-09-11
- Date de décès
- 2012-04-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Kensington, Maryland, USA
- Études
- Yale University (BA|1941)
- Professions
- teacher
poet - Organisations
- US Army Air Forces (WWII)
- Prix et distinctions
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1964-1965)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1984-1985, interim)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 135
- Popularité
- #150,831
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 22