Edwin Honig

Background

HONIG, Edwin was born on September 3, 1919 in New York, United States. Son of Abraham David Honig and Jane Freundlich.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Wisconsin, 1941. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1947. Master of Arts (honorary), Brown University, 1958.

Career

Instructor English, Purdue University, 1942-1943; Instructor English, New York University and Illinois Institute Technology, 1946-1947; Instructor English, U. New Mexico, 1947-1948; Instructor English, Claremont College, summer 1949; instructor English, Harvard University, 1949-1952; Briggs-Copeland assistant Professor of English, Harvard University, 1952-1957; member of faculty, Brown U., 1957-1982; Professor of English, Brown U., 1960-1982; department chairman, Brown U., 1967; professor comparative literature, Brown U., 1962-1982. Visiting professor University of California at Davis, 1964-1965. Mellon professor Boston University intersession, 1977.

Achievements

• Edwin Honig has been listed as a noteworthy Comparative literature educator, poet by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Moral Circus: Poems By Edwin Honig

    (Contemporary Poetry Library Series, V8.)

  • The Gazabos : Forty-one Poems and The Widow : A Verse Play in One Act
  • The Moral Circus: Poems By Edwin Honig by Edwin Honig (2011-10-15)
  • Interrupted Praise: New and Selected Poems (Poets now)
  • Shake a spear with me, John Berryman;: New poems and a play
  • Spring Journal: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program)
  • Interrupted Praise: New and Selected Poems (Poets now) by Edwin Honig (1983-04-01)
  • Spring Journal: Poems

Membership

Faculty Brown University since 1957.

Connections

Married Charlotte Gilchrist, April 1, 1940 (deceased 1963). Married Margot S. Dennes, December 15, 1963 (divorced 1978). Children: Daniel D., Jeremy D.

Father:

Abraham David Honig

Mother:

Jane (Freundlich) Honig

Spouse:

Margot S. Dennes

Spouse:

Charlotte Gilchrist

child:

Jeremy D. Honig

child:

Daniel D. Honig