Allen R. Grossman (1932–2014)

Autor de The Ether Dome and Other Poems (1979-1991)

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Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a B.A. and a M.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He taught at Brandeis University for 35 years before moving to Johns Hopkins University, where he taught from 1991 until his retirement in 2006. His mostrar más collections of poetry include The Ether Dome and Descartes' Loneliness. He received numerous awards during his lifetime including three Pushcart Prizes, the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize in Poetry of Wellesley College, the Sheaffer-PEN/Nex England Award for Literary Distinction, and Yale University's Bollingen Prize. He died of complications from Alzheimer's on June 27, 2014 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Allen R. Grossman

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The Ether Dome and Other Poems (1979-1991) (1991) 36 copias

The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (1991) 34 copias

Descartes' Loneliness (2007) 20 copias

How to Do Things with Tears: A Book of Poems (2001) 19 copias

The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River: A Book of Poems (1979) 16 copias

True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing (2009) 15 copias

The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground: Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook) (1986) 13 copias

The Philosopher's Window: And Other Poems (1995) 12 copias

The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (Poets on Poetry) (1997) 10 copias

Of the Great House: A Book of Poems (1982) 10 copias

Sweet Youth: Poems by a Young Man and an Old Man, Old and New 1953-2001 (2002) 8 copias

Poetry: A Basic Course (Superstar Teachers) (1991) 4 copias

Against Our Vanishing: Winter Conversations With Allen Grossman (Poetics Ser .: No 1) (1981) 4 copias

A Harlot's Hire 2 copias

And the dew lay all night upon my branch : poems 2 copias

The recluse, and other poems 1 copia

WHR Volume XLIV , Number 1 Spring 1990 1 copia

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Fecha de nacimiento: 1932-01-07
Fecha de fallecimiento: 2014-06-27
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Educación: Harvard University (MA|1956)
Brandeis University (PhD|1960)
Ocupaciones: professor
poet
Relaciones: Grossman, Judith (wife)
Grossman, Austin (son)
Grossman, Lev (son)
Organizaciones: Brandeis University
Johns Hopkins University
Premios y honores: Bassine Citation (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1997])
Guggenheim Fellowship (1982)
Bollingen Prize (2009)

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The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers… por Allen Grossman

This is a theoretical text, so it's not really fun reading for the most part, but it's brilliant and highly perceptive work from two men who have thought carefully and systematically about the art of poetry. Grossman's Summa Lyrica is the second of the two works contained in the book, and I consider it a really important text because it seeks to undertake an examination and justification for the project of lyric poetry, with consideration of historical antecedent and contemporary concerns. A really valuable and highly learned work if you are studying poetry or want to write lyric poetry.… (más)

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