Daryl Hine

Daryl Hine (born 24 Feb 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and translator.

Life

Daryl Hine was born in Burnaby in 1936 and grew up in New Westminster B.C. He attended McGill University in Montreal 1954-58. His first chapbook, The Carnal and the Crane, was published as part of Louis Dudek's McGill Poetry Series in 1957.^[1]

Hine then went to Europe on a Canada Council scholarship, where he lived for the next three years. He moved to New York in 1962 and to Chicago in 1963, taking a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago^[2] in 1967. He taught there and at at Northwestern University and at Illinois University (Chicago Campus) during the following decade while he served as editor of Poetry Magazine. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1986, and lives in semi-retirement in Evanston, Illinois.^{[citation needed]}

He is the son of Robert Fraser and Elsie James Hine.^{[citation needed]}

He was an editor of Poetry magazine, from 1968-78. The correspondence is held at Indiana University.^[3]

His work appeared in the New York Review of Books,^[4] Harper's,^[5] The New Yorker,^[6] The Tamarack Review,^[7] The Paris Review,^[8]

He first came out as gay in his 1975 work In & Out, which was initially available only in a privately-printed version in limited circulation. The work did not gain general publication until 1989.^[9]

Awards

• 2010 Finalist, Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry^[10]
• 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
• 1986 MacArthur Foundation Fellow^[11]
• 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• The Prince of Darkness & Co.. Abelard-Schuman. 1961.  (novel)
• Polish Subtitles: Impressions from a Journey. Abelard-Schuman. 1962.  (nonfiction)
• Daryl Hine, Joseph Parisi, ed (1978). The "Poetry" Anthology, 1912-1977. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 9780395265482. 

Poetry

• "Vowel Movements". Resident Alien (New York: Atheneum Publishers). 1975. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21995. 

• Five Poems. Emblem Books. 1955. 
• The Carnal and the Crane. Contact Press. 1957. 
• The Devil's Picture Book. Abelard. 1960. 
• Heroics: Five Poems. France: Grosswiller. 1961. 
• The Wooden Horse. Atheneum. 1965. 
• Minutes. Atheneum. 1968. 
• Resident Alien. Atheneum. 1975. ISBN 9780689106514. 
• In and Out. Knopf. 1989.  (privately printed, 1975)
• Daylight Saving. Atheneum. 1978. 
• Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1980. ISBN 9780689111181.  {Atheneum, 1981}
• Academic Festival Overtures. Atheneum. 1985. ISBN 9780689115738. 
• Postscripts. Random House. 1990. ISBN 9780394588360.  (Knopf (New York, NY), 1991)
• Recollected Poems: 1951-2004. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 2007. ISBN 1554550211. 
• &: A Serial Poem. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 2010. ISBN 1554551641. 

Plays

• A Mutual Flame (radio play), BBC, 1961.
• The Death of Seneca, produced in Chicago, 1968.
• Alcestis (radio play), BBC, 1972.

Translations

• The Homeric Hymns and the Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Atheneum. 1972. 
• Heinrich Heine (1981). Selected Poems. Atheneum. 
• (And author of commentary) Theocritus: Idylls and Epigrams, Atheneum, 1982.
• Ovid's Heroines: A Verse Translation of the Heroides. Yale University Press. 1991. ISBN 9780300050936. 
• Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology. Princeton University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780691088204. http://books.google.com/?id=NYTw5S4x34wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Daryl+Hine. 
• Hesiod (2005). Works of Hesiod and the Homeric hymns. Translator Daryl Hine. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226329659. http://books.google.com/?id=hcWPi9GyifYC&dq=Daryl+Hine&printsec=frontcover. 

Reviews

Hine is less an oracle than a high-energy technician. A recurring metaphor is nuclear fusion — its poetic procedures putting mundane, household elements under graceful pressure until they fuse together into a new substance, dense and glowing in contrast to their prosaic ingredients.^[12]

Daryl Hine's is a cultured voice. It avoids stuffiness, egoism and shallow ironies. At the centre of this hailstorm of rhyme is a calm - one made of seeming trifles, yet with thinking that is profound. It is a reflection on civilization as a whole, and is the summing up of a life in particular weighed against eternity.^[13]

In Puerilities, Hine has beautifully re-created Book XII of the Greek Anthology; it stands as a translation, and as a poetic achievement in its own right. Puerilities entertains, and can move one too.^[14]

Daryl Hine, celebrated for translations of the Homeric Hymns and Theocritus, has embarked on his own autobiography in classical disguise in Academic Festival Overtures. Though the poem is written in self-proclaimed alexandrines (by alternating 13 and 12 syllables), its indented patterning is suggestive rather of Ovid (part Tristia, part Amores). The narrative impulse races through long paragraphs, while a rhyme scheme insistently coagulates internal elements into epigrammatic quatrains. It is a virtuoso achievement, as remarkable in its way as anything by Auden. It is also a remarkable record of a yearning, bookish and inhibited boyhood.^[15]

Hine's robust language…gleams with what sonneteers used to call sprezzatura, the confident, making-it-look-easy gloss that greases great art.^[16]

At certain moments, in reading him, one has the startled sense that language has arrived at a kind of impasse which only a quick scintillation of wit – in the form of a sly rhyme, a subtle pun or an extravagant rhetorical flourish – can grace, if not elude. As a result, Hine’s poems, unlike the brittle pirouettes of the formalist, seem to take shape, in all their glistening eloquence, hot from some secret forge...Hine succeeds at something which once was commonplace but has now become sadly rare: he writes poems which give pleasure to the reader.^[17]

One cannot write about Daryl Hine without using words like "bravura" and "virtuosity."^[18]

References

1. ^ "Steve Smith" (discussion), LeonardCohenForum.com, Web, May 6, 2011.
2. ^ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3167
3. ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/poetry.html
4. ^ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/6703
5. ^ http://www.harpers.org/archive/1970/09/0021120
6. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Daryl%20Hine%22
7. ^ http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookinfo.phtml?nr=234486439&l=en&searchform=
8. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/121
9. ^ Daryl Hine at glbtq.com
10. ^ http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/2010/bt129304310476770565.htm
11. ^ http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142693/k.79E6/Fellows_List__August_1986.htm
12. ^ Alexander Lewis (2010). "Frivolous Flesh and Stoical Bone Review". The Critical Flame. http://criticalflame.org/verse/1110_lewis.htm. 
13. ^ Jury Citation, Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry. 2010.16.10. http://www.fitzhenry.ca/detail.aspx?ID=10370. 
14. ^ Otto Steinmayer (2002.04.02). "Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology Review". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2002/2002-04-02.html. 
15. ^ HAROLD BEAVER (March 2, 2006). "REFUGE IN THE LIBRARY, ON THE FARM AND IN MEMORIES". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/02/books/refuge-in-the-library-on-the-farm-and-in-memories.html. 
16. ^ Jason Guriel (January, 2008). "THE WORLD STAND STILL AND STILL WE FLOW". Poetry (Chicago). http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=180560. 
17. ^ Eric Ormsby (June, 2009). "ULTIMATE DISTILLATIONS". Canadian Notes & Queries. http://www.notesandqueries.ca/ultimate-distillations/. 
18. ^ Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring, 1982). "Notes on Current Books, Spring 1982". Virginia Quarterly Review. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1982/spring/notes-on-current-books/. 

External links

• "Dictionary of Literary Biography on (William) Daryl Hine"
• "Daryl Hine" Poetry Foundation

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