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第16回（2003年） Winner
Daniel Gerard Hoffman
ダニエル・ジェラルド・ホフマン
Daniel Gerard Hoffman
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1923-04-03 （New York City, New York, United States）
- 死没
- 2013-03-30 （Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States） 89歳
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- New York City (born, long-term residence) → Haverford, Pennsylvania (later life) → Brooksville, Maine (summer residence)
経歴
- 職業
- poet, essayist, academic, translator, literary critic
- 活動期間
- 1947年〜2013年
- 所属
- Columbia University, Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania, Academy of American Poets, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Philomathean Society, Franklin Inn Club
- 所属団体
- Academy of American Poets, Philomathean Society, Franklin Inn Club
- 影響を受けた人物
- W. H. Auden, William Wordsworth (poetic tradition)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
学位:
B.A.
期間:
1943–1947
卒業年:
1947
国:
United States
Member of the Boar's Head Society while at Columbia
Columbia University
English
学位:
M.A.
期間:
1947–1949
卒業年:
1949
国:
United States
Columbia University
English
学位:
Ph.D.
期間:
1949–1956
卒業年:
1956
国:
United States
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
主催:
Library of Congress
結果:
就任（任命）
Hazlett Memorial Award
1984
主催:
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
結果:
受賞
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
2003
主催:
The Sewanee Review
結果:
受賞
Arthur Rense Poetry Prize
2005
主催:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果:
受賞
Paterson Poetry Prize
1988
対象作品:
HangGliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948–1988
主催:
Paterson Poetry Center
結果:
受賞
National Book Award (finalist)
1973
対象作品:
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
主催:
National Book Foundation
結果:
最終候補（ファイナリスト）
National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist)
1981
対象作品:
Brotherly Love
主催:
National Book Critics Circle
結果:
ノミネート（ファイナリスト）
Memorial Medal of the Magyar P.E.N.
対象作品:
Translations of contemporary Hungarian poetry
主催:
Magyar P.E.N.
結果:
受賞（翻訳業績に対して）
Honorary Degree (Swarthmore College)
2005
主催:
Swarthmore College
結果:
授与
Guggenheim Fellowship
主催:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果:
助成
National Endowment for the Humanities (grant)
主催:
National Endowment for the Humanities
結果:
助成
受賞・候補エディション
Arthur Rense Prize
1回登壇
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第3回（2005年） Winner
作品
代表作
An Armada of Thirty Whales
1954年 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年 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年 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年 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年 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年 long poemsCollection of longer-form poems including late-career works.
narrative poetrytradition and personal history
全著作
- 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)
作家による翻訳
- A Play of Mirrors — translation of poems by Ruth Domino (2002)
作風・主題
- 文体
- blend of traditional metrics and modern dictionlyrical and observationalscholarly critical sensibility in tone
- 頻出モチーフ
- memory and reminiscenceAmerican landscape and cityreinterpretation of myth and traditionlanguage play
評価・遺産
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.
関連学会
- Academy of American Poets
- Philomathean Society
資料所蔵先
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Daniel Hoffman papers)
- Library of Congress (Daniel Hoffman related holdings)
引用
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providing a new direction for nature poetry in the post-Wordsworthian world.
出典: W. H. Auden (introduction) (1954年) -
no less joyful or engaged at 80 than he was at 25.
出典: Eric McHenry (review in The New York Times Book Review) (2003年)
豆知識
- 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