Duff Cooper Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1963) Winner
Aileen Ward
エイリーン・ワード
Eirīn Wādo
Aliases:
Aileen Coursen Ward
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1919-04-01 （Newark, New Jersey）
- Died
- 2016-05-31 age 97
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Summit, New Jersey
Career
- Occupations
- Professor of English Literature
- Active Years
- 1954-1990
- Affiliations
- Wellesley College, Barnard College, Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence College, Brandeis University, New York University
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith College | — | English | B.A. | — | United States |
| Radcliffe College | — | English | M.A., Ph.D. | 1940-1953 | United States |
Smith College
English
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1940
Country:
United States
Radcliffe College
English
Degree:
M.A., Ph.D.
Period:
1940-1953
Year of Graduation:
1953
Country:
United States
M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1953. Dissertation on poetic metaphor
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Duff Cooper Prize | John Keats: The Making of a Poet | — | Duff Cooper Prize | Winner |
| 1964 | National Book Award | John Keats: The Making of a Poet | Arts and Letters (nonfiction) | National Book Foundation | Winner |
| 1966 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Winner |
Duff Cooper Prize
1963
Work:
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
Organization:
Duff Cooper Prize
Result:
Winner
National Book Award
1964
Work:
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
Category:
Arts and Letters (nonfiction)
Organization:
National Book Foundation
Result:
Winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
1966
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1963 BiographyBiography of John Keats, the result of nine years of research.
Poet's development
Bibliography
- John Keats: The Making of a Poet (1963)
- The Unfurling of Entity: Metaphor in Poetic Theory (1987)
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, and Other Writings (edited, 1966)
- The Poems of John Keats (edited, 1966)
- Canterbury Revisited: The Blake-Cromek Controversy (1988)
- The forging of Orc: Blake and the idea of revolution (1972)
Legacy
Literary scholar renowned for her biography of John Keats. Died while working on a biography of William Blake for nearly 50 years.