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The best hour of the night : poems / Louis Simpson.

By:

Simpson, Louis, , 1923-2012

Publication details: New Haven : Ticknor & Fields , 1983.Description: 69 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0899192041

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811 SIM

LOC classification:

PS3537.I75 B4 1983

Awards:

Winner, Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1963

Summary: Born in the British West Indies, Louis Simpson became a U.S. citizen after volunteering for service in the U.S. Army in 1943. He draws his material from the daily events of his own life, and several of his best-known poems are war poems that deal with the hardness and brutality of what he calls "the other side of glory." He cites as influences "many poets, English and American---particularly Eliot and Whitman. His basically realistic verse has strains of imagism and surrealism. With Robert Pack and Donald Hall, he edited New Poets of England and America (1957) and is well known for his An Introduction to Poetry. His awards include a Hudson Review Fellowship (1957); the Millay Award (1960); Guggenheim Fellowships (1962, 1970); and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1964) for At the End of the Open Road (1963).

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	811 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		028546

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Born in the British West Indies, Louis Simpson became a U.S. citizen after volunteering for service in the U.S. Army in 1943. He draws his material from the daily events of his own life, and several of his best-known poems are war poems that deal with the hardness and brutality of what he calls "the other side of glory." He cites as influences "many poets, English and American---particularly Eliot and Whitman. His basically realistic verse has strains of imagism and surrealism. With Robert Pack and Donald Hall, he edited New Poets of England and America (1957) and is well known for his An Introduction to Poetry. His awards include a Hudson Review Fellowship (1957); the Millay Award (1960); Guggenheim Fellowships (1962, 1970); and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1964) for At the End of the Open Road (1963).

Winner, Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1963

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