Edward Dickinson Blodgett

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Edward Dickinson Blodgett (born February 26, 1935 in Philadelphia - † November 15, 2018 ) was a Canadian poet, literary scholar and translator.

Life

Blodgett attended Amherst College until 1956 and studied at the University of Minnesota (until 1961) and Rutgers University , where he received his PhD in 1969 . From 1966 he taught English and comparative literature at the University of Alberta . He has published several volumes of poetry and literary studies, including Configuration: Essays on the Canadian Literatures (1982) and Studies on Douglas Gordon Jones (1984) and Alice Munro (1988). For the poetry collection Apostrophes: woman at a piano he received a Governor General's Literary Award from the Canadian Authors' Association in 1996. Since 1986 he was a member of the Royal Society of Canada .

Poetry

  • ake away the names (1975)
  • sounding (1977)
  • Beast Gate (1980)
  • Ark / Elegies (1983)
  • Musical Offering (1986)
  • Da Capo (1990)
  • Apostrophes: woman at a piano (1996)
  • Apostrophes II: through you I (1997)
  • Transfiguration , (1998)
  • Apostrophes III: alone upon the earth (1999)

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