Joseph Fremder
Joseph Fremder (born October 11, 1897 in Philadelphia ; died June 22, 1965 in Coral Gables ) was an American poet .
Life
Joseph Fremder studied at Columbia University and Harvard University and graduated in 1917. He worked as an English teacher and later studied on a scholarship at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1929 he became a lecturer in poetics at Columbia University. Ausländer's first volume of poetry was published in 1924. In 1929 he dedicated his "narrative poem" Hell in Harness to Ogden Nash . He edited an anthology of poems with Frank Ernest Hill, for which the two also wrote a second volume with a history of poetics. The two books became standard reading in education.
Foreigner was married to the writer Audrey Wurdemann (1911-1960), who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1935, in his second marriage . They lived first in New York City and from 1937 in Washington, DC ; they wrote two novels together.
During the Second World War, Fremder wrote nine poems for the nations occupied by Nazi Germany , France, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg and Yugoslavia under the title The Unconquerables , the poems appeared in American newspapers and were also featured on posters Dissemination before Ausländer summarized them in one volume in 1943.
Foreigner was from 1937 to 1941 the first Consultant for Poetry (later the title was "Poet Laureate") of the Library of Congress .
Works (selection)
- Sunrise Trumpets . New York: Harper, 1924
- Cyclop's Eye . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926
- Historia amoris mea . New York: Harold Vinal, 1927
- with Frank Ernest Hill: The Winged Horse. The Story of the Poets and their Poetry . Garden City: Doubleday, 1927
- with Frank Ernest Hill (Ed.): The Winged Horse . Anthology. 1929
- Letters to Women . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929
- Hell in harness . Illustrations by Ervine Metzl . Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929
- Petrarch : The Sonnets of Petrarch . Translation into English by Joseph Auslander. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1931
- No Traveler Returns: A Book of Poems . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933
- More Than Bread: A Book of Poems . New York: Macmillan company, 1936
- Riders at the gate . New York: The Macmillan Co., 1938
- The Unconquerables: Salutes to the Undying Spirit of the Nazi-Occupied Countries . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1943 (Saturday Evening Post, 1941)
- with Audrey Wurdemann: My Uncle Jan ,: A Novel . London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1948
- with Audrey Wurdemann: The Islanders . London: Longmans, Green, 1951
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Auslander in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Joseph Fremder , at: Britannica
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foreigner, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1965 |
| Place of death | Coral Gables |