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Richard HowardRichard Howard is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University. He lives in New York City. Howard had a brief early career as a lexicographer. He soon turned his attention to poetry and poetic criticism, and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his 1969 collection Untitled Subjects, which took for its subject dramatic imagined letters and monologues of 19th century historical figures. For much of his career, Howard has written poems using a quantitative verse technique. Howard is the former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is the current poetry editor of The Paris Review. =Works= Poetry Critical Essays - Alone With America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950 (1969)
- Preferences: 51 American Poets Choose Poems From Their Own Work and From the Past (1974)
- Travel Writing of Henry James (essay) (1994)
- Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003 (2004)
Major Translations (French to English) Howard, Richard Howard, Richard Howard, Richard Howard, Richard Howard, Richard Howard, Richard
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