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Hoffman, Daniel Gerard was born on April 3, 1923 in New York City. Son of Daniel and Frances (Beck) Hoffman.
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The Center of Attention
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Paul Bunyan: Last of the Frontier Demigods
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Paul Bunyan is the giant of American folklore, so huge that several states claim him as their own—some say he was born in Michigan, others claim Minnesota, still others, Maine. Daniel Hoffman's Paul Bunyan shows that the hero's origins are more surprising still. More than another recounting of Paul Bunyan's adventures, this book is a classic of American folklore. First published in 1949, this new edition traces the clues of origin to turn-of-the-century logging camps, to the sparse record of actual folktales, and then to the ways these yarns were repeated, revised, simplified, or distorted.
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THE CITY OF SATISFACTIONS
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AN ARMADA OF THIRTY WHALES THE YALE SERIES OF YOUNGER POETS
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Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948--2003
( Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy...)
Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, "Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public life, it is gaiety that sustains us, and love, and the imagination's power to create from both deprivation and delight." This collection embodies those emotions and that imaginative power. Hoffman's verse has always exulted in the resources of language, as sensuous in sound as in response to the natural world. Beyond Silence, to be published on Hoffman's eightieth birthday, presents his shorter poems culled from eight previous collections, plus several new poems. Here, rather than in chronological order, they appear thematically and invite the reader to partake of the pleasures that characterize this distinguished poet's verse: "clarity, grace where desired, accuracy of visual detail and dialogue, and a formal mastery so deft that playfulness comes easily" (Fred Chappell). Arriving at last. It has stumbled across the harshStones, the black marshes. True to itself, by what craftAnd strength it has, it has comeAs a sole survivor returns. From the steep pass.Carved on memory's staffThe legend is nearly decipherable.It has lived up to its vowsIf it enduresThe journey through the dark placesTo bear witness,Casting is messageIn a sort of singing. -- "The Poem"
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An Armada Of Thirty Whales
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A LITTLE GESTE: AND OTHER POEMS.
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Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves and Muir (Galaxy Books)
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Able was I ere I saw Elba: Selected poems, 1954-74
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(Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets) Author: Daniel Hoffman published on (October, 2005)
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A Little Geste and Other Poems
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Darkening Water: Poems
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" A major work, a record of our era," wrote Maxine Kumin in awarding the Paterson Poetry Prize to Hang-Gliding from Helicon, Daniel Hoffman's selected poems a dozen years ago. Of Darkening Water, his first collection since then, Fred Chappell observes, "These poems have all the poet's familiar virtues-clarity, grace where desired, accuracy of detail and of dialogue, and a formal mastery so deft that playfulness comes easily. Hoffman's dominant theme lies in the contrast (and often the necessary balance) between the primal, ancient, legendary strains of our culture and the new-fangled, distracting, but genuine imperatives of contemporaneity. Hoffman uses older forms and traditions to make something new and durable." The range of Hoffman's sensibility includes the primordial sludge from which life emerged and the coin-filled fountain of a suburban shopping mall, an enduring New England garden and the dancing woman in an ancient cave. His luminous poems create memorable characters, exploring man's relationship to nature and to time. Seemingly effortless juxtapositions create rewarding surprises. This refined collection by one of our finest poets reverberates with intelligence, close observation, and a deep respect for the possibilities of language. It is a treasure for Hoffman's many longtime readers as well as for those discovering his work for the first time.
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Form and Fable in American Fiction
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Middens of the Tribe: A Poem
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Across a city a harried doctor makes his rounds: A dying child. A fatal streetcar accident. A stillborn delivery. A house-call to a mansion where, beneath an evocative painting of Susanna and the Elders, a former lord of the financial district broods upon his vanished power and awaits death in the company of his mercenary butler. Thus begins Middens of the Tribe, part family saga, part naturalistic novella. As the relationships between the characters reveal themselves, what emerges is a Tarot of the unfulfilled. The frustrated artist. His lover, who posed as Susanna. A roughneck roundhouse worker. Wilma, whose identity is one of the book's most disturbing secrets. The tongue-tied office boy. The illusionist Doctor Magic and his long-suffering assistant. The tycoon. His scathingly self-deluded wife. Their children, a mysteriously estranged daughter and two sons, one following, however falteringly, in his father's footsteps, the other an archaeologist searching through the detritus of ancient lives for clues to the mysteries of his own: Can the middens of the tribe I study tell if family strife always reveals a culture's dynamics, if, amid bones, flints, sufferings are the same? Memories, nightmares, reveries intersect in Middens of the Tribe, unveiling a stark, four-dimensional nexus of lives intertwined -- leavened by touches of the comic and grotesque: a cubist rendering of alienation, intimacy, and loss. Daniel Hoffman's accomplishment is an ambitious one. For both narrative power and poetic intensity, Middens of the Tribe is an unforgettable book.
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Striking the Stones: Poems
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The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems
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The Whole Nine Yards offers poems spanning the career of former Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman. These explore violence and transcendence in realistic, gothic, and comic modes, as they tell of war, cold war, domestic violence, bureaucratic oppression, and a compassionate rescue at sea. Searching and lyrical suites celebrate the births of children, recoup a year in wartime France, and meditate on life and death, the seen and the unseen. Hoffman aims to share the pleasures of dramatizing language, theme, and form in dimensions new to his work. The result is a compelling collection from a distinguished poet.
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THE CITY OF SATISFACTIONS Poems
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Words to Create a World (Poets on Poetry)
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Reflections on poetry, from the birth of modernism to the present
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American poetry and poetics; poems and critical documents from the Puritans to Robert Frost. by Hoffman, Daniel (Editor)
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Poems and critical documents from the puritans to Robert Frost. Edited by Daniel G. Hoffman
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Broken Laws
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(Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948-1988) Author: Daniel Hoffman published on (June, 1988)
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Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets
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Makes You Stop and Think is a collection written over fifty years, from the accomplished and renowned poet Daniel Hoffman. "The sonnet… is a sacred / vessel, it takes a civilization / to conceive its shape or know / its uses," the poet Louise Bogan told "a crowd of bearded youths" and "rumpled girls." Hoffman's harvest of half a century's sonnets shows the richness and power of their form. These poems revel in exploring memory and feeling: For reality is vintage and delicious Especially when you taste it while it brews Because it comes as love comes, heart-skip sudden, Yet long as a lifetime in a once past wishes, A gift you couldn't have the wit to choose.
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- An Armada of Thirty Whales
- Form and Fable in American Fiction (Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary critic...)
- Brotherly Love (Brotherly Love is a long poem that evokes William Penn�...)
- Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing
- The Poetry of Stephen Crane. (Book by Hoffman, Daniel G.)
- Words to Create a World (Poets on Poetry) (Reflections on poetry, from the birth of modernism to the...)
- Broken Laws
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Daniel Gerard Hoffman, American Literature educator, poet. Served to First lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member Modern Language Association, Association Literary Scholars and Critics, Academy American Poets (chancellor 1973-1997, chancellor emeritus since 1997), Authors Guild (council).
Education
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1947. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1956.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Swarthmore College, 2005.
Career
Instructor English, Columbia University, 1952-1956;
visiting professor, American Literature Faculté des Lettres, Dijon, France, 1956-1957;
assistant professor to Professor of English, Swarthmore College, 1957-1966;
Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1983;
poet-in-residence, University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1993;
Felix E. Schelling Professor of English literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1983-1993;
professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, since 1993. Fellow Indiana U. School Letters, 1959. George Elliston lecturer poetry U. Cincinnati, 1964.
Lecturer 6th International School Yeats Studies, Sligo, Ireland, 1965. Poetry consultant Library. of Congress, 1973-1974, honorary consultant in American letters, 1974-1977. Poet-in-residence Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, since 1988.
Visiting Professor of English, King's College London, 1991-1992.
Achievements
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Form and Fable in American Fiction
( Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary crit...)
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Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948--2003
( Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy...)
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Brotherly Love
( Brotherly Love is a long poem that evokes William Penn'...)
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Paul Bunyan: Last of the Frontier Demigods
( Paul Bunyan is the giant of American folklore, so huge...)
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Darkening Water: Poems
(" A major work, a record of our era," wrote Maxine Kumin ...)
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Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets
( Makes You Stop and Think is a collection written over f...)
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The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems
( The Whole Nine Yards offers poems spanning the career o...)
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Words to Create a World (Poets on Poetry)
( Reflections on poetry, from the birth of modernism to t...)
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Words to Create a World (Poets on Poetry)
( Reflections on poetry, from the birth of modernism to t...)
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Middens of the Tribe: A Poem
( Across a city a harried doctor makes his rounds: A dyin...)
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American poetry and poetics; poems and critical documents from the Puritans to Robert Frost. by Hoffman, Daniel (Editor)
(Poems and critical documents from the puritans to Robert ...)
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Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves and Muir (Galaxy Books)
(Oxford University Press, 1970, Galaxy Books, Very good., ...)
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The Poetry of Stephen Crane.
(Book by Hoffman, Daniel G.)
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The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing (Harvard paperbacks)
(Book by Hoffman, Daniel)
- Broken Laws
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Form and Fable in American Fiction (By: Daniel Hoffman) published: May, 1994
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THE CITY OF SATISFACTIONS
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- An Armada of Thirty Whales
- The Center of Attention
- AN ARMADA OF THIRTY WHALES THE YALE SERIES OF YOUNGER POETS
- An Armada Of Thirty Whales
- Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing
- A LITTLE GESTE: AND OTHER POEMS.
- Able was I ere I saw Elba: Selected poems, 1954-74
- Broken Laws
- (Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets) Author: Daniel Hoffman published on (October, 2005)
- A Little Geste and Other Poems
- Form and Fable in American Fiction
- Striking the Stones: Poems
- THE CITY OF SATISFACTIONS Poems
- (Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948-1988) Author: Daniel Hoffman published on (June, 1988)
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Form and Fable in American Fiction
Membership
Served to First lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member Modern Language Association, Association Literary Scholars and Critics, Academy American Poets (chancellor 1973-1997, chancellor emeritus since 1997), Authors Guild (council).
Connections
Married Elizabeth McFarland, May 22, 1948. Children: Kate, MacFarlane.
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Decorated Legion of Merit. Recipient University Chicago Folklore prize, 1949, Poetry Center Introductions prize, 1951, Yale Series of Younger Poets award, 1954, Ansley prize, 1956, Literature award Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1963, 83, medal for excellence Columbia University, 1964, National Institute Arts and Letters award in poetry, 1967, memorial medal Hungarian Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, 1980, Hazlett Memorial award for literature, 1984, Paterson Poetry prize, 1989, Aiken Taylor award for Modern American Poetry, 2003, Arthur Rense Poetry prize, 2005. Poetry grantee Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1971-1972. Fellow American Council Learned Societies, 1961-1962, 66-67, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1975-1976, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983-1984, LE Phillabaum Poetry award, 2009.Decorated Legion of Merit. Recipient University Chicago Folklore prize, 1949, Poetry Center Introductions prize, 1951, Yale Series of Younger Poets award, 1954, Ansley prize, 1956, Literature award Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1963, 83, medal for excellence Columbia University, 1964, National Institute Arts and Letters award in poetry, 1967, memorial medal Hungarian Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, 1980, Hazlett Memorial award for literature, 1984, Paterson Poetry prize, 1989, Aiken Taylor award for Modern American Poetry, 2003, Arthur Rense Poetry prize, 2005. Poetry grantee Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1971-1972.
Fellow American Council Learned Societies, 1961-1962, 66-67, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1975-1976, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983-1984, LE Phillabaum Poetry award, 2009.