Theodore Weiss was an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, and literary magazine editor.

Life

He graduated from Muhlenberg College

Muhlenberg College

Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.- History...

 in 1938 and Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1940. He was an instructor at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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, the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...

, Yale University

Yale University

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, and Bard College

Bard College

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. He taught at Princeton University

Princeton University

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, until retirement in 1987.

He edited (with his wife, Renee Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature, which published William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

, Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...

, E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

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, and Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

.

In 1987, he was the subject of a documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem, made by Harvey Edwards.

Awards

• 1956 Wallace Stevens Awards
• 1977 Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Poetry
• 1988-89 Poetry Society of America
  Poetry Society of America
  The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
  
  's Shelley Memorial Award
  Shelley Memorial Award
  The Shelley Memorial Award of more than $3,500, given out by the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of the late Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need. The selection is...
  
  
• 1997 Oscar Williams and Gene Durwood Award for Poetry
• 1997 PEN/Nora Magid Lifetime Achievement Award
• Guggenheim fellowship
• Ford Foundation fellowship
• National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship.

Poetry

• The World Before Us: Poems, 1950-1970 (Macmillan, 1970)
• Fireweeds (Macmillan, 1976),
• A Slow Fuse: New Poems (Macmillan, 1984)
• A Sum of Destructions (Louisiana State University Press, 1995),

Essays

• The Breath of Clowns and Kings (Atheneum, 1971), a study of Shakespeare's early comedies and histories
• The Man From Porlock: Engagements, 1944-1981 (Princeton University Press, 1982), a collection of essays.

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