Background
Mr. Rosenthal was born on March 14, 1917, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. He was a son of Jacob and Ethel (Brown) Rosenthal.
(The poet and critic M.L. Rosenthal explores the sources o...)
The poet and critic M.L. Rosenthal explores the sources of poetry in our daily lives, in the common speech, and in the awareness and sensibility that poets share with the rest of humanity. Through a wide range of examples drawn from poetry, he explores how art is a natural human activity that makes us aware of ourselves and the world around us in a way as never before. He exposes poetry's relation to our surroundings, politics, language, sex, love, and death.
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Mr. Rosenthal was born on March 14, 1917, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. He was a son of Jacob and Ethel (Brown) Rosenthal.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Master of Arts (1938) degrees at the University of Chicago. From New York University Macha Rosenthal earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1949.
From 1939 to 1945, Mr. Rosenthal taught as an instructor in English at Michigan State University. In 1946, he was hired as an instructor at New York University, where he taught for 26 years. In 1961 he served in the U.S. Cultural Exchange Program and was visiting specialist to Germany, in 1965, to Pakistan, in 1966, to Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria, and in 1980, to Italy and France. In 1974, Mr. Rosenthal was a visiting poet in Israel. From 1977 to 1979 he served as director of the Poetics Institute at New York University, where he was a professor of English until 1996.
Macha Rosenthal contributed poems, articles, and reviews to such leading journals as The New Yorker, the New Statesman, Poetry, The Spectator (London), ELH, and The Quarterly Review. He also served from 1956 to 1961 as poetry editor of The Nation in 1970-1978 as poetry editor of The Humanist, and from 1973 till 1990 as poetry editor of Present Tense. He published numerous books of criticism and collections of verse and edited various anthologies of poetry.
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American Association of University Professors , United States
Modern Language Association , United States
Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association , United States
Poetry Society American , United States
American Literature Association , United States
Yeats Society , United States
Phi Beta Kappa , United States
On January 7, 1939, he married Victoria Himmelstein, with whom he had three children: David, Alan, and Laura.