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Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz was born on March 27, 1923 in Jamaica, West Indies. Son of Aston and Rosalind (Marantz) Simpson.
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[Viereck, Peter] Farber, Norma / Pack, Robert / Simpson, Louis. Poets of Today II: Norma Farber - The Hatch: Poems / Robert Pack: The Irony of Joy: Poems / Louis Simpson: Good News of Death and Other Poems. Introductory Essay: The Fourth Voice of Poetry by John Hall Wheelock. First Edition. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. 8°. XI, 195 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Jacket Design by Ronald Clyne. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck. Inscribed and signed on the endpaper: To Peter Viereck with best wishes Louis Simpson - Robert Pack.
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Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual’s maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover’s quarrel with the world. "Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."—Seamus Heaney Educated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University, Louis Simpson has taught widely, most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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(Introduction by John Hall Wheelock. Second in the Poets o...)
Introduction by John Hall Wheelock. Second in the Poets of Today series. Farber's first appearance (The Hatch), Pack's first appearance (The Irony Of Joy), Simpson's second appearance (Good News Of Death).
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As MacNeice s lifetime falls further and further away from us, his poetry seems to be keeping its proximity. In part, this is a matter simply of excellence, and the power of excellence in poetry to endure MacNeice s lyric gift enabled him to write a number of pieces that are almost certain to be permanently safe from oblivion but it is partly also to do with the sheer depth and range of MacNeice s resources as a writer. Paradoxically, it was his capacity to absorb the present moment, in all its complexity, vividness, and immediacy, which fuelled MacNeice s ability to make art that could live beyond that present time and into a future which he could not know. --from Peter McDonald's Introduction to the American edition
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Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz was born on March 27, 1923 in Jamaica, West Indies. Son of Aston and Rosalind (Marantz) Simpson.
Higher schools certificate, Munro College, Jamaica, 1939. Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1948. A.M., Columbia University, 1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1959. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 1977. Doctor of Letters, Hampden Sydney College, 1990.
Writer and teacher; Instructor, Assistant Professor Columbia University 1955-1959. Professor University of Calif, at Berkeley 67. Professor State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1967.
Honorary D.H.L. (Eastern Michigan University) 1977. Honorary Deputy Lieutenant (Hampden-Sydney College) 1991.
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Author: (poems) The Arrivistes, 1949, Good News of Death, 1955, A Dream of Governors, 1959, At the End of the Open Road, 1963 (Pulitzer prize for poetry 1964), Selected Poems, 1965, Adventures of the Letter I, 1971, Searching for the Ox, 1976, Caviare at the Funeral, 1980, The Best Hour of the Night, 1983, People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-1983, 1983, Collected Poems, 1988, In the Room We Share, 1990, Jamaica Poems, 1993, There You Are, 1995, The Owner of the House, New Collected Poems, 1940-2000, (translation) Nombres et poussière, 1996, Modern Poets of France, 1997, Kaviar pä begravningen, 1998, François Villon: The Legacy and The Testament, (prose) Riverside Drive, 1962, James Hogg: A Critical Study, 1962, North of Jamaica, 1972, Three on the Tower: The Lives and Works of Ezra Pound, Thomas Stearns Eliot and William Carlos Williams, 1975, A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, 1978, A Company of Poets, 1981, The Character of the Poet, 1986, Selected Prose, 1989, Ships Going into the Blue, 1994, The King My Father's Wreck, 1995. Editor: The New Poets of England and America, 1957, An Introduction to Poetry, 1967.
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Fellow American Academy in Rome.
Dogs, fishing.
Married Jeanne Claire Rogers, 1949 (divorced 1954). 1 child, Louis Matthew. Married Dorothy Mildred Roochvarg, 1955 (divorced 1979).
Children: Anne Borovoi, Anthony Rolf. Married Miriam Butensky Bachner, 1985 (divorced 1998).