|
|
Laureates From: 1971-1980
|
|
| |
|
|
1971-1973
Josephine Jacobsen
(1908-2003) Jacobsen, born on the shore of Lake Ontario,
Canada, while her American parents were on vacation, was
educated at Roland Park Country School in Baltimore. Her
poetry, published in nine volumes, is known for its spare,
elegant language on a broad range of topics. She also wrote
short stories and literary criticism. She received the Shelley
Memorial Award in 1994 and the Robert Frost Medal for
Lifetime Achievement in Poetry in 1997.
|
|
|
1973-1974
Daniel Hoffman
(1923- ) Hoffman, born in New York City, was educated at
Columbia, through to the Ph.D. He is the author of nine
books of poetry, including “Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New
and Selected Poems”; a verse novel, “Middens of the Tribe,”
and “Brotherly Love,” a finalist for the National Book Award in
1985. His poetry is noted for merging history, myth and
personal experience. He is Felix E. Schelling Professor of
English Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
|
|
|
1974-1976
Stanley Kunitz
(1905- 2006) Kunitz, born in Worcester, Mass., graduated
from Harvard with a bachelor’s in 1926 and a master’s in
1927. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, including
“Selected Poems, 1928-1958,” which won the 1959 Pulitzer
Prize and and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,
Mass. He taught for many years in the graduate writing
program at Columbia University.
graduate writing program at Columbia University.
|
|
|
1976-1978
Robert Hayden
(1913-1980) Hayden was born in Detroit and raised by foster
parents. In pursuit of a master’s degree at the University of
Michigan, he studied under W. H. Auden. In 1940, he
published his first book of poems, “Heart-Shape in the
Dust.” He taught several years at Michigan and for 23 years
at Fisk University. He was the first African-American to be
appointed Consultant in Poetry. Besides religion and nature,
Hayden had an interest in African-American history and
explored his concerns about race in his work.
|
|
|
1978-1980
William Meredith
(1919- ) Meredith was born in New York City and graduated
in 1940 from Princeton University, where he first began to
write poetry. He served as a naval pilot during the Second
World War and the Korean War. He is the author of nine
books of poetry. “Effort at Speech” won the National Book
Award in 1987, and “Partial Accounts: New and Selected
Poems” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Since 1955, he
taught primarily at Connecticut College.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
