Richard 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
- 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)
