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Susan Stewart

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Susan Stewart

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1952-03-15 (Unknown)
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, USA)

Career

Occupations
poet, literary critic, university professor
Active Years
1979-2025
Affiliations
Princeton University
Memberships
Academy of American Poets (Chancellor), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society

Education

Dickinson College
English and Anthropology
Degree: BA
Year of Graduation: 1974
Country: USA
Johns Hopkins University
Poetics
Degree: MFA
Year of Graduation: 1978
Country: USA
University of Pennsylvania
Folklore
Degree: PhD
Year of Graduation: 1984
Country: USA

Awards

MacArthur Fellowship
1997
Organization: MacArthur Foundation
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1986
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
1995
Organization: Pew Charitable Trusts
Result: 受賞
Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism
2003
Work: Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Organization: Phi Beta Kappa
Result: 受賞
National Book Critics Circle Award
2003
Work: Columbarium
Organization: National Book Critics Circle
Result: 受賞
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2004
Work: Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Columbarium

2003 Poetry

Poetry collection. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

memoryloss

Red Rover

2008 Poetry

Poetry collection.

Poetry and the Fate of the Senses

2002 Literary Criticism

Criticism on poetry and the fate of the senses.

Bibliography

  • Nonsense: aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature (1979)
  • Crimes of Writing (1991)
  • On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (1993)
  • Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002)
  • The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2005)
  • The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making (2011)
  • Yellow Stars and Ice (1981)
  • The Hive (1987)
  • The Forest (1995)
  • Columbarium (2003)
  • Red Rover (2008)
  • Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017)

Translations by Author

  • Andromache (Euripides, 2001)
  • Poesie e prose (Scipione, 2001)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
singular poetic syntaxconsciousness depiction
Recurring Motifs
miniaturegiganticsouvenircollection

Legacy

Prominent American poet and literary critic. Emerita Professor at Princeton University. MacArthur Fellow.

Archives

  • Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Susan Stewart Papers)

Quotes

  • Stewart has built a poetic syntax capable of conveying an utterly singular account of consciousness, by the light of which it is possible to see the structure of the human world with a new clarity and an unforeseen precision, possible only in her presence and by means of her art.
    Source: Allen Grossman