Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howard (birth name: Richard Joseph Orwitz ; born October 13, 1929 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American poet , literary critic and university professor who received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1970 for his volume of poetry Untitled Subjects . He also worked as a translator and in 1983 received the National Book Award for a translation of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire .
Life
Richard Joseph Orwitz was adopted as a child and took the name of his adoptive parents, Howard. After attending school, he began an undergraduate degree at Columbia University with Mark Van Doren , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate course at Columbia University in 1952 with a Master of Arts (MA) and then went on to study at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris, between 1952 and 1953 . He received a Guggenheim scholarship and began writing as a poet and literary critic and was also the poetry editor of the literary magazine The Paris Review , which appeared for the first time in the spring of 1953, and of the political magazine The New Republic, founded in 1914 . He was also a professor at the University of Cincinnati and professor of English at the University of Houston .
1962 appeared with Quantities Howard's first volume of poetry. For his volume of poetry Untitled Subjects , published in 1969 , he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1970 and the Lambda Literary Award for Trappings in 2000 . He also worked as a translator and in 1983 received the National Book Award for a translation of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire . In 1983 Howard was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1988 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Publications
Poetry collections
- Quantities , 1962
- The Damages , 1967
- Untitled Subjects , 1969
- Findings , 1971
- Two-Part Inventions , 1974
- Fellow Feelings , 1976
- Misgivings , 1979
- Lining Up , 1984
- No Traveler , 1989
- Selected Poems , 1991
- Like Most Revelations , 1994
- Trappings , 1999
- Talking Cures , 2002
- Inner Voices , 2004
- The Silent Treatment , 2005
- Without Saying , 2008
- A Progressive Education , 2014
Literary critical works
- Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950 , 1969
- Preferences: 51 American poets choose poems from their own work and from the past. Commentary on the choices and an introd , 1974
- Travel Writing of Henry James , 1994
- Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003 , 2004
Web links
- Richard Howard in nndb (English)
- Entry in poets.org
- Entry in Open Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Winners
- ↑ National Book Award Winners: 1950 - 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2012 on WebCite ) 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.
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed June 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howard, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howard, Richard Joseph (full name); Orwitz, Richard Joseph (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet, literary critic, translator, and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |