John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims was an American poet born in 1913 in Muskegon, Michigan and died in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1945 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He published reviews of the works by Robert Lowell and W. S. Merton. He taught English at Harvard University, the University of Florence, the University of Toronto, the Bread Loaf School of English, Williams College, and the University of Missouri, among others. He was granted awards and grants by the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute of the Humanities. He was editor of "Poetry magazine" from 1978 to 1984.

Bibliography

*"Zany in Denim" (University of Arkansas Press, 1990)
*"The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems" (1990), selected for the New York Public Library's "Ninety from the Nineties".
*"The Kiss: A Jambalaya" (1982)
*"Knowledge of the Evening" (1960), which was nominated for a National Book Award
*"A Fountain in Kentucky" (1950
*"The Iron Pastoral" (1947)
*"Five Young American Poets" (1944)

He is also the author of many translations:

*"Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation" (1971
*"Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry" (1983)
*"Metamorphoses" (1965)
*"Poems of St. John of the Cross" (1959)
*"Euripides: Four Tragedies" (1958)


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