Allen R. Grossman (1932–2014)

Auteur van 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 toon meer 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) toon minder

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

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

Descartes' Loneliness (2007) 20 exemplaren

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Harlot's Hire 2 exemplaren

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

The recluse, and other poems 1 exemplaar

WHR Volume XLIV , Number 1 Spring 1990 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum: 1932-01-07
Overlijdensdatum: 2014-06-27
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Opleiding: Harvard University (MA|1956)
Brandeis University (PhD|1960)
Beroepen: professor
poet
Relaties: Grossman, Judith (wife)
Grossman, Austin (son)
Grossman, Lev (son)
Organisaties: Brandeis University
Johns Hopkins University
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: 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… door 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.… (meer)

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