Background
Steele, Timothy Reid was born on January 22, 1948 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Edward William Steele Junior and Ruth Bell Reid Gjessing.
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter
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Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manifesto but an even-handed scholarly account of the whole background of 'free verse' poetics. -- Richard Wilbur
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The Color Wheel (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
(Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earne...)
Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work. While always faithful to the richness and complexity of experience, the poems in "The Colour Wheel" aim to be clear and accessible. They blend imaginistic detail and reflection and bring to contemporary subjects what Steele calls "the preservative virtues of formal care".
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(Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Metre) Author: Timothy Steele published on (April, 1990)
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Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems
(Steele's poems fuse traditional verse forms with contempo...)
Steele's poems fuse traditional verse forms with contemporary subjects & in Kennedy's words, "express appreciation both for the life of the mind and for the sensuous world." Writing in Library Journal, Rob Fure characterized Steele's first collection, Uncertainties & Rest (1979), as "a lovely book; the formality of Steele's poetry is so delicate that it never intimidates." Of his 2nd book, Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems (1986), Kathryn Hellerstein wrote in Partisan Review, "Steele's formal range is impressive. Each poem works in a different stanza ... Their subjects, evoked in exquisite imagery, are entryways to noumena, the pure abstractions of the mind." Critics have pointed to Yvor Winters and Cunningham as having influenced Steele's work and have noted his particular affinity with Frost. As Donald G. Sheehy says in his essay "Measure for Measure: The Frostian Classicism of Timothy Steele": "Steele recalls Frost in his subtle mastery of form, in his philosophical and aesthetic moderation, in his sympathetic but unsentimental attention to the natural world and to the vicissitudes of love & marriage, & in the gently incisive wit with which he meets human foible, public & private." In an interview in 1991 with the Los Angeles Times, Steele explained his goals in using traditional poetic structure: "Well-used meter and rhyme can create a sense of liveliness and a symmetry and surprise that can produce delight and pleasure for the reader ... I want to say something important. And I would hope the reader would be interested in it. But I also hope to give the reader pleasure."
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter by Timothy Steele (1990) Paperback
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Uncertainties and rest: Poems
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Book by Steele, Timothy
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter Paperback - March 1, 1990
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Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986
("Desperately and delightfully unfashionable" was how revi...)
"Desperately and delightfully unfashionable" was how reviewer Richmond Lattimore characterized Timothy Steele's Uncertainties and Rest when it first appeared in 1979. Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems appeared in 1986 and solidified and extended Steele's reputation as, in the words of Publishers Weekly, "one of the finest contemporary poets to write in meter and traditional forms." Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986 draws together these two books into a single volume. This collection offers the most substantial gathering yet from a body of work widely praised for its tonal and thematic range and for its wit and warmth of feeling.
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Timothy Reid Steele
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Education
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1977.
Career
Jones lecturer in poetry Stanford (California) University, 1975-1977. Lecturer English University of California at Los Angeles, 1977-1983, University California, Santa Barbara, 1986. Professor English California State University.A., since 1987.
Achievements
Works
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Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems
(Steele's poems fuse traditional verse forms with contempo...)
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Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986
("Desperately and delightfully unfashionable" was how revi...)
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter
(Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manife...)
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The Color Wheel (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
(Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earne...)
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Uncertainties and rest: Poems
(Book by Steele, Timothy)
- (Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Metre) Author: Timothy Steele published on (April, 1990)
- Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter by Timothy Steele (1990) Paperback
- Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter Paperback - March 1, 1990
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Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems
Interests
Connections
Married Victoria Lee Erpelding, January 14, 1979.
