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Louis Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is a United States poet. He won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.
Life
Simpson was natural withwithin Jamaica, West Indies, in 1923. His father was a lawyer of Scottish descent, and his mother Russian. At Xvii he emigrated to the United States & began attending Columbia University. In the period of World War II, from 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division and would fight in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. When a prevent of a war he attened the University of Paris. He presently sleep in Setauket, New York.
Career
He number one book was The Arrivistes, published in 1949. He received the Ph.D. from Columbia and taught there, as well as University of California, Berkeley, and the Stony Brook University. Inside 1975 the publication of 3 on the Tower, a survey of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, & William Carlos Williams, brought Simpson wide plaudit as a literary critic. His more books of criticism include Ships Running Into The Blue: Essays & Notes inside Poetry (1994), The Character of the Poet (1986), A Company of Poets (1981), & A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, & Robert Lowell (1978). More awards that he has received come a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 and the Prix de Rome.
Bibliography
A Creator of the Home: Recently Gathered Verse form, 1940-2001
Nombres et poussière; There Your family is (1995)
Ships Running Into a Blue: Essays & Notes in Poetry (1994)
In the Room You Part (1990)
Gathered Verse form (1988)
A Character of the Poet (1986)
Population Survive On text: Selected Verse form 1949-83 (1983)
A Better Hour of the Nighttime (1983)
The Company of Poets (1981)
Caviar at a Funeral (1980)
Armidale (1979)
The Revolution inside Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell (1978)
Shopping for a Ox (1976)
3 on the Tower (1975)
Dangerous undertaking of the Letter I personally (1971)
Selected Verse form (1965)
At a Prevent of the Open Road, Verse form'' (1963)
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