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Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. The award was named after the poet, critic, and translator Robert Fitzgerald. It was established in 1999 at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. Each awardee has been interviewed at the conference by linguist and literary historian Dr. Thomas Cable of the University of Texas at Austin. Winners * 2014: Brennan O'Donnell * 2012: Charles O. Hartman * 2010: Thomas Cable * 2009: Annie Finch * 2008: Lewis Turco * 2007: Robert B. Shaw * 2006: John Hollander * 2005: Marina Tarlinskaja * 2004: Timothy Steele * 2003: George T. Wright * 2002: Paul Fussell * 2001: Edward Weismiller * 2000: T. V. F. Brogan * 1999: Derek Attridge See also {{portal, Poetry * Poetry * List of years in poetry * List of poetry awards * List of American literary awards This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".Mitgang, Herbert (January 17, 1985). Robert Fitzgerald, 74, poet who translated the classics. ''New York Times'' He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. He also composed several books of his own poetry. Biography Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for ''The New York Herald Tribune'' for a year. Later he worked several years for TIME magazine. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "associate editors" at ''Time'' in the play, ''Love's Old Sweet Song''. Whittaker Chambers mentions h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Tarlinskaja
Marina Tarlinskaja (sometimes transliterated "Tarlinskaya" or "Tarlinskaia", russian: Марина Тарлинская) is a Russian-born American linguist specializing in the statistical analysis of verse. She uses the Russian linguistic-statistical method which, at the most basic level, counts the occurrences of word-stresses in ''ictic'' (strong) and ''non-ictic'' (weak) positions in lines of verse. From these, "stress profiles" can be built, by which bodies of verse of different periods, authors, genres, and even languages can be compared statistically. In her 2014 book she used twelve parameters of verse analyses including syntactic structure of lines and the use of verse rhythm to emphasize meaning. Tarlinskaja successfully applied her methodology to defining the authorship of questionable Elizabethan poems and plays. Writing in 1981, T.V.F. Brogan called her ''English Verse: Theory and History'' "the most extensive and most important study of English verse structure produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Years In Poetry
This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry. 21st century in poetry 2020s * 2023 in poetry * 2022 in poetry * 2021 in poetry * 2020 in poetry - Lana Del Rey's ''Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass'' 2010s * 2019 in poetry * 2018 in poetry * 2017 in poetry * 2016 in poetry * 2015 in poetry * 2014 in poetry Death of Madeline Gins, Amiri Baraka, Juan Gelman, José Emilio Pacheco, Maya Angelou * 2013 in poetry Death of Thomas McEvilley, Taylor Mead, Seamus Heaney * 2012 in poetry Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" leads to him being declared ''persona non grata''; Death of Adrienne Rich, Wisława Szymborska * 2011 in poetry Tomas Tranströmer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Liz Lochhead succeeds Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan as The Scots Makar; Death of Josephine Hart, Václav Havel, Robert Kroetsch * 2010 in poetry Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Attridge
Derek Attridge FBA (born 6 May 1945) is a South African-born British academic in the field of English literature and a current Professor of English at the University of York, a post he has held since 2003. Attridge undertakes research in South African literature, James Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory and the performance of poetry. He wrote a monograph on South African writer J. M. Coetzee.Gaylard, Gerald. "Derek Attridge J. M. Coetzee And The Ethics Of Reading: Literature In The Event Pietermaritzburg." English In Africa 1 (2006): 151. ''Literature Resource Center''. Web. 31 Aug. 2014. Professor Attridge's new work, ''The Cambridge History of South African Literature'', co-edited with Prof David Atwell of York, is the 10th work by Professor Attridge published by Cambridge University Press. Education Attridge received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Natal University in South Africa before moving to the UK to complete his Master of Arts (MA) and PhD at Clare College, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * 1 May 1999 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years * 1 July 1999 — Scotland's Parliament opens with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That", instead of "God Save The Queen" * 4 October 1999 — In the United States, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman signs into law Assembly Bill No. 2714 (P.L. 1999, c. 228) sent to her from the state legislature and creates the ''New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit''—effectively, Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Whitman subsequently selected poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925), then a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey as the first appointed to the post in the following April. * The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is established at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. * February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate * April 17 - New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman appoints poet Gerald Stern to be the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey * October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll * October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau * October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perform Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Weismiller
Edward Ronald Weismiller (August 3, 1915 Monticello, Wisconsin - August 25, 2010 Washington, D.C.) was an American poet, scholar and professor of English, George Washington University. . Life He was raised in Wisconsin and Vermont. In 1936, the twenty-year-old Edward Weismiller became the youngest poet to win the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. He graduated from Cornell College in 1938, from Harvard University with a master’s in 1942, and from Oxford University, with a D.Phil. in 1950, where he was a Rhodes scholar. Professor Weismiller, an eminent scholar of John Milton’s poetry, came to Washington, DC in 1968 to study original source materials in the Folger Library, and stayed on to teach in the English department of the George Washington University. After his retirement in 1980 he remained there, reveling in the city’s beauty, variety, and cultural ferment. He was in love with words and stories and had a gift for making and keeping friends. An inspirin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Immediately after the September 11 attacks in the United States, W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" was read (with many lines omitted) on National Public Radio and widely circulated and discussed for its relevance to recent events. On September 19, Amiri Baraka read his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey. * December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Milton's '' Paradise Lost'' at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours. * American computer hacker Seth Schoen wrote DeCSS haiku as one of a number of artworks intended to demonstrate that source code should be accorded the privileges of freedom of speech. * In ''The Best American Poetry 2001'', poet and guest editor Robert Hass wrote, "There are roughly three traditions in American poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell Jr. (22 March 1924 – 23 May 2012) was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America's class system. Fussell served in the 103rd Infantry Division during World War II and was wounded in fighting in France. Returning to the US, Fussell wrote extensively and held several faculty positions, most prominently at Rutgers University (1955–1983) and at the University of Pennsylvania (1983–1994). He is best known for his writings about World War I and II, which explore what he felt was the gap between the romantic myth and reality of war; he made a "career out of refusing to disguise it or elevate it". Biography Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Fussell was the second of three children. His father, Paul Fussell (1895–1973), son of a widowed schoolteacher, became a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem " The Corrupt on Earth" which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit. * August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog Silliman's Blog' which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.). * September — Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George T
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