Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (2003) Winner
Daniel Gerard Hoffman
ダニエル・ジェラルド・ホフマン
Daniel Gerard Hoffman
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1923-04-03 （New York City, New York, United States）
- Died
- 2013-03-30 （Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States） age 89
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- New York City (born, long-term residence) → Haverford, Pennsylvania (later life) → Brooksville, Maine (summer residence)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, essayist, academic, translator, literary critic
- Active Years
- 1947-2013
- Affiliations
- Columbia University, Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania, Academy of American Poets, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Philomathean Society, Franklin Inn Club
- Memberships
- Academy of American Poets, Philomathean Society, Franklin Inn Club
- Influenced By
- W. H. Auden, William Wordsworth (poetic tradition)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | — | English | B.A. | 1943–1947 | United States |
| Columbia University | — | English | M.A. | 1947–1949 | United States |
| Columbia University | — | English | Ph.D. | 1949–1956 | United States |
Columbia University
English
Degree:
B.A.
Period:
1943–1947
Year of Graduation:
1947
Country:
United States
Member of the Boar's Head Society while at Columbia
Columbia University
English
Degree:
M.A.
Period:
1947–1949
Year of Graduation:
1949
Country:
United States
Columbia University
English
Degree:
Ph.D.
Period:
1949–1956
Year of Graduation:
1956
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress | — | — | Library of Congress | 就任（任命） |
| 1984 | Hazlett Memorial Award | — | — | Pennsylvania Council on the Arts | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry | — | — | The Sewanee Review | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Arthur Rense Poetry Prize | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Paterson Poetry Prize | HangGliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948–1988 | — | Paterson Poetry Center | 受賞 |
| 1973 | National Book Award (finalist) | Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe | — | National Book Foundation | 最終候補（ファイナリスト） |
| 1981 | National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist) | Brotherly Love | — | National Book Critics Circle | ノミネート（ファイナリスト） |
| — | Memorial Medal of the Magyar P.E.N. | Translations of contemporary Hungarian poetry | — | Magyar P.E.N. | 受賞（翻訳業績に対して） |
| 2005 | Honorary Degree (Swarthmore College) | — | — | Swarthmore College | 授与 |
| — | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 助成 |
| — | National Endowment for the Humanities (grant) | — | — | National Endowment for the Humanities | 助成 |
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
1973
Organization:
Library of Congress
Result:
就任（任命）
Hazlett Memorial Award
1984
Organization:
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Result:
受賞
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
2003
Organization:
The Sewanee Review
Result:
受賞
Arthur Rense Poetry Prize
2005
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
Paterson Poetry Prize
1988
Work:
HangGliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948–1988
Organization:
Paterson Poetry Center
Result:
受賞
National Book Award (finalist)
1973
Work:
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
Organization:
National Book Foundation
Result:
最終候補（ファイナリスト）
National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist)
1981
Work:
Brotherly Love
Organization:
National Book Critics Circle
Result:
ノミネート（ファイナリスト）
Memorial Medal of the Magyar P.E.N.
Work:
Translations of contemporary Hungarian poetry
Organization:
Magyar P.E.N.
Result:
受賞（翻訳業績に対して）
Honorary Degree (Swarthmore College)
2005
Organization:
Swarthmore College
Result:
授与
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
助成
National Endowment for the Humanities (grant)
Organization:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Result:
助成
Awards & Nominations
Arthur Rense Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (2005) Winner
Works
Major Works
An Armada of Thirty Whales
1954 poetryEarly collection of poems focused on nature and landscape; praised by W. H. Auden.
naturelandscapetradition and modernity
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
1971 poetryA group of experimental and language-play poems centered on Edgar Allan Poe; finalist for the National Book Award in 1973.
literary inheritancelanguage playreinterpretation of the past
HangGliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948–1988
1988 poetry (selected)Selected poems from 1948 to 1988; winner of the 1988 Paterson Poetry Prize.
remembrancemature dictionAmerican landscape
Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942–1947
2000 memoirMemoir recounting his World War II-era service and work as a technical writer and journal editor.
wartime experiencework and memory
Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948–2003
2003 poetry (selected)A selection of shorter poems; critics noted his sustained vitality as a poet into old age.
memoryagingobservations of daily life
The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems
2009 long poemsCollection of longer-form poems including late-career works.
narrative poetrytradition and personal history
Bibliography
- Paul Bunyan, Last of the Frontier Demigods (1952)
- An Armada of Thirty Whales (1954)
- The Poetry of Stephen Crane (1957)
- A Little Geste and Other Poems (1960)
- Form and Fable in American Fiction (1961)
- The City of Satisfactions (1963)
- Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir (1967)
- Striking the Stones (1968)
- Broken Laws (1970)
- Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1971)
- The Center of Attention (1974)
- Brotherly Love (1981)
- HangGliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948–1988 (1988)
- Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha (1989)
- Words to Create a World: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry (1993)
- Middens of the Tribe (1995)
- Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942–1947 (2000)
- Darkening Water (2002)
- A Play of Mirrors (2002) — translation of poems by Ruth Domino
- Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948–2003 (2003)
- Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets (2005)
- The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems (2009)
- Next to Last Words: Poems (2013)
Translations by Author
- A Play of Mirrors — translation of poems by Ruth Domino (2002)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- blend of traditional metrics and modern dictionlyrical and observationalscholarly critical sensibility in tone
- Recurring Motifs
- memory and reminiscenceAmerican landscape and cityreinterpretation of myth and traditionlanguage play
Legacy
Daniel Hoffman was an American poet, critic, translator, and educator active from the mid-20th century into the early 21st. Appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1973, he influenced younger poets through teaching, criticism, and translation, and was noted for bridging poetic tradition and modernity.
Academic Societies
- Academy of American Poets
- Philomathean Society
Archives
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Daniel Hoffman papers)
- Library of Congress (Daniel Hoffman related holdings)
Quotes
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providing a new direction for nature poetry in the post-Wordsworthian world.
Source: W. H. Auden (introduction) (1954) -
no less joyful or engaged at 80 than he was at 25.
Source: Eric McHenry (review in The New York Times Book Review) (2003)
Trivia
- Married to Elizabeth McFarland for 57 years (both poets)
- Named plaintiff in the Authors Guild vs. Google (2005)
- Served as Felix Schelling Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, retired as emeritus
- Poet in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1988–1999)
- Spent summers in Brooksville, Maine