fiction.wikisort.org - WriterWilliam Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.[1]
American writer, translator, editor
For another person, see William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician).
William Jay Smith |
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Born | (1918-04-22)April 22, 1918 Winnfield, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Died | August 18, 2015(2015-08-18) (aged 97) Lenox, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Occupation | Poet |
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Nationality | American |
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Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis Columbia University Oxford University |
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Life
William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and continued his studies at Columbia University and at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
In 1947 he married the poet Barbara Howes and they lived for a time in England and Italy. They had two sons, David Smith and Gregory. They divorced in the mid-1960s.
Smith was a poet in residence at Williams College from 1959–1967 and taught at Columbia University from 1973 until 1975. He served as the Professor Emeritus of English literature at Hollins University. He was the first Native American named to the position of Poet Laureate in the United States.
As of 2008, he lived in houses located in both Cummington, Massachusetts, and Paris, France.[2]
Smith was the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award.
He had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1975.
His work appeared in Harper's Magazine,[3] The New York Review of Books,[4]
Works
Poetry
Poems for children
- Laughing Time. Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. 1955. ISBN 978-0-440-05534-1. reprint 1980
- Boy Blue's Book of Beasts. Little, Brown. 1957.
- Typewriter Town. Dutton. 1960. ISBN 0-620-11193-3.
- Ho for a Hat!. Joy Street Books. 1964. ISBN 978-0-316-80120-1. rev. ed., 1989
- Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense. Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. 1980. ISBN 978-0-440-05534-1.
- Around My Room. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2000. ISBN 978-0-374-30406-5.
Translations
- Alain Bosquet (July 1995). "Alain Bosquet: Three poems translated by William Jay Smith". The American Poetry Review.
- Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955)
- Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue. Greenwood Press. 1956. ISBN 978-0-8371-0520-8. reprint 1972
- Two Plays by Charles Bertin : "Christopher Columbus" and "Don Juan" (1970)
- Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994).
Non-fiction
Editor
- James S. Holmes, William Jay Smith, ed. (1984). Dutch interior. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-05746-2.
- Dana Gioia, William Jay Smith, ed. (1985). Poems From Italy. New Rivers Press.
Plays
Awards
- 1945 Young Poets prize, Poetry
- 1964 Ford fellowship for drama
- 1970 Henry Bellamann Major award
- 1972 Loines award
- 1972, 1995 National Endowment for the Arts grant
- 1975, 1989 National Endowment for the Humanities grant
- 1978 Gold Medal of Labor (Hungary)
- 1980 New England Poetry Club Golden Rose Award
- 1982 Ingram Merrill Foundation grant
- 1990 California Children's Book and Video Awards recognition for excellence (pre-school and toddlers category), for Ho for a Hat!
- 1991 medal (médaille de vermeil) for service to the French language, French Academy
- 1993 Pro Cultura Hungarica medal
- twice a nominee for the National Book Award in poetry
- 1997 René Vásquez Díaz prize, Swedish Academy
References
External links
External links
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На других языках
- [en] William Jay Smith
[ru] Смит, Уильям Джей
Уильям Джей Смит (англ. William Jay Smith; 22 апреля 1918, Уиннфилд, Луизиана — 18 августа 2015) — американский поэт-лауреат.
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