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, New York University and Illinois Institute of Technology, 1946-1947, University New Mexico, 1947-1948, Claremont College, summer 1949. Instructor English Harvard University, 1949-1952, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor English, 1952-1957. Member faculty Brown University, 1957-1982, professor English, 1960-1982, chairman department, 1967, professor comparative literature, 1962-1982.

Visiting professor University California at Davis, 1964-1965. Mellon professor Boston University intersession, 1977.

Works

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  • The Moral Circus: Poems By Edwin Honig

    (Contemporary Poetry Library Series, V8.)

  • The moral circus, poems (Contemporary poetry library series)
  • The Moral Circus: Poems [inscribed]
  • Spring Journal: Poems
  • Spring Journal: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program)
  • Shake a spear with me, John Berryman;: New poems and a play
  • Interrupted Praise: New and Selected Poems (Poets now)
  • The Imminence of Love Poems 1962-1992
  • The Major Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell
  • THE MAJOR METAPHYSICAL POETS Of the Seventeenth Century
  • The Major Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century, an Anthology
  • The Major Metaphysical Poets of the 17th Century
  • The major metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century: John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell : an anthology.

• Other Work

  • Author: García Lorca, review edit, 1963. Poems The Moral Circus, 1955. Criticism Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory, 1959.
    
    Poems The Gazabos: 41 Poems, 1960, Survivals, 1964, Spring Journal: Poems, 1968, Four Springs, 1972, Shake a Spear With Me, John Berryman, 1974, At Sixes, 1974. Criticism Calderón and The Seizures of Honor, 1972. Play/libretto Calisto and Melibea, 1972.
    
    Poems The Affinities of Orpheus, 1976, Selected Poems (1955-1976), 1979, Interrupted Praise, 1983, Gifts of Light, 1983, The Imminence of Love: Poems 1962-1992, 1993. Stories Foibles and Fables of an Abstract Man, 1979. (with Jean Zaleski) art book Cow/Lines, 1982, (with Walter Feldman) God Talk, 1993.
    
    Plays Ends of the World and Other Plays, 1983. Criticism The Poet's Other Voice: Conversations on Literary Translation, 1985. Translations Calderón: 4 Plays, 1961, Cervantes' Interludes, 1964, Calderón's Life Is A Dream, 1970, Fernando Pessoa's Selected Poems, 1971, Keeper of Sheep, 1986, Poems, 1986, García Lorca's Diván and Other Writings, 1974, Fernando Pessoa's Always Astonished: Selected Prose, 1988, Miguel Hernández's The Unending Lightning, 1990, Garcia Lorca's The Divan poems, puppet plays and newly discovered play, 1990, Calderón: Six Plays, 1993.
    
    (with Oscar Williams) anthologies The Mentor Book of Major American Poets, 1961, The Major Metaphysical Poets, 1968, Spenser, 1968. Translation (with A.S. Trueblood) Lope de Vega's La Dorotea, 1985. Plays, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Widow, 1953, New York City, Washington and Denver, The Phantom Lady, 1964, Stanford Summer Festival, Calisto and Melibea, 1966, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, London, Life Is A Dream, 1970.
    
    Produced opera (with Jerome Rosen), Davis, California, Calisto and Melibea, 1979, Life Is a Dream, 1988, Los Angeles, 1991.

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:

Charlotte Gilchrist

Spouse:

Margot S. Dennes

child:

Daniel D. Honig

child:

Jeremy D. Honig