Macha Rosenthal

Macha Louis Rosenthal , also ML Rosenthal , (born March 14, 1917 in Washington, DC ; died July 21, 1996 in Suffern ) was an American literary scholar and poet.

Life

Rosenthal studied at the University of Chicago and was an instructor for English at Michigan State University from 1939 to 1945 . In 1946 he moved to New York University as an instructor , where he received his doctorate in 1949. He taught modern poetics and literary theory there from 1961 and after his retirement in 1987 until 1996. In 1977 he was the founder and first director of the Poetics Institute. He was twice a Guggenheim Fellow and was also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies . International exchange programs took him to Germany, Pakistan, during the Cold War in 1966 also to Romania, Poland and Bulgaria, and in 1980 to Italy and France. In 1974 he was a visiting professor in Israel .

Rosenthal was a specialist in the poetry of William Butler Yeats , Ezra Pound , TS Eliot , Hugh MacDiarmid and William Carlos Williams . He edited several poetry anthologies. Rosenthal first used the term " Confessional Poetry " in 1959 in a review of the prose and poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell .

From 1956 to 1961 he was in charge of poetics for the weekly newspaper The Nation and wrote for The New Yorker , New Statesman , Poetry (Chicago), The Spectator , English Literary History (ELH) and the Quarterly Review ; from 1970 to 1978 he was poetry editor in The Humanist and from 1973 to 1990 poetry editor in the Jewish newspaper Present Tense .

Rosenthal wrote poetry himself, his first volume of poetry Blue Boy on Skates was published in 1964, followed by a second volume Beyond Power: New Poems in 1969 .

Rosenthal lived in Suffern . He was married to Victoria Himmelsteiner and they had three children. The early deceased son David Herschel Rosenthal was a poet and translator from Catalan, Rosenthal dedicated the 1994 study of Yeats' poems to him.

Fonts (selection)

• The modern poets: a critical introduction . New York: Oxford University Press, 1960
• A primer of Ezra Pound . New York: Macmillan, 1960
• Selected poems and two plays of William Butler Yeats . New York: Collier Books, 1962
• Blue Boy on Skates: Poems . 1964
• The William Carlos Williams reader . New York: Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966
• The New Modern Poetry: British and American Poetry Since World War II . New York: Macmillan, 1967
• The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II . New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
• Beyond Power: New Poems . 1969
• Randall Jarrell . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972
• Poetry and the Common Life . New York: Oxford University Press, 1974
• Sailing Into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot . New York: Oxford University Press, 1978
• The Adventures of Pinocchio . Translation from Italian. 1983
• with Sally M. Gall: The Modern Poetic Sequence . New York: Oxford University Press, 1983
• The Poet's Art . New York: Norton, 1987
• Our Life in Poetry: Selected Essays and Reviews . New York, NY: Persea Books, 1991
• Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art . New York: Oxford University Press, 1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Macha Rosenthal in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Mel Gussow : ML Rosenthal, Who Championed Poetry, Dies at 79 , obituary, in: The New York Times , July 23, 1996
• Walter Baumann: Obituaries: Professor ML Rosenthal , obituary, in: The Independent , August 13, 1996

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Confessional poetry ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Glossary Terms, at Poetry Foundation