Richard Howard Biography

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Richard Howard is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born on October 13 1929 in Cleveland, 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.

He was awarded the PEN Translation Prize in 1976 for his translation of E. M. Cioran's A Short History of Decay. Howard is the former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and is currently the poetry editor of The Paris Review. He also teaches in the writing program at Columbia's School of the Arts.

Works

Poetry

• Quantities (1962)
  
• Damages (1967)
  
• Untitled Subjects (1969)
  
• Findings 1971
  
• Two-Part Inventions (1974)
  
• Fellow Feelings (1976)
  
• Misgivings (1979)
  
• Lining Up (1984)
  
• No Traveller (1989)
  
• Selected Poems (1991)
  
• Like Most Revelations (1994)
  
• Trappings (1999)
  
• Talking Cures (2002)
  
• Inner Voices (selected poems), 2004
  

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)

• Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
  
• Camera Lucida, S/Z, and many other works by Roland Barthes
  
• Simone de Beauvoir
  
• Nadja by André Breton
  
• Emil Cioran
  
• Michel Foucault
  
• Charles de Gaulle
  
• André Gide
  
• Jean Giraudoux
  
• Alain Robbe-Grillet
  
• Claude Simon
  
• The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
  
• The Stars by Edgar Morin
  
• A Happy Death by Albert Camus
  

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