Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1923, Apr.3 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1943-1946 | First Lieutenant, United States Army Air Forces; Officer in charge of The Technical Data Digest. |
| 1947 | B.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1948 | Married Elizabeth McFarland |
| 1949 | M.A., Columbia University |
| 1949-1951 | Instructor, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1951-1956 | Instructor, Columbia University |
| 1952 | Published Paul Bunyan, Last of the Frontier Demigods. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1954 | Published An Armada of Thirty Whales. New Haven: Yale University Press |
| 1956 | Ph.D., Columbia University |
| 1956-1957 | Reader’s Digest Foundation Professor of American Studies, Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Dijon, France |
| 1957 | Published The Poetry of Stephen Crane. New York: Columbia University Press |
| 1957-1966 | Professor, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. |
| 1960 | Published A Little Geste and Other Poems. New York: Oxford University Press |
| 1961 | Published Form and Fable in American Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press |
| 1962 | Edited American Poetry and Poetics: Poems and Critical Documents From the Puritans to Robert Frost. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books |
| 1963 | Published The City of Satisfactions. New York: Oxford University Press |
| 1966-1993 | Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1967 | Published Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir. New York: Oxford University Press |
| 1973-1974 | Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| 1977 | Published Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba: Selected Poems, 1954-74. London: Hutchinson |
| 1979 | Edited The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press |
| 1981 | Published Brotherly Love. New York: Random House |
| 1988 | Published Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948-1988. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University |
| 1988-1999 | Poet-in-Residence, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y. |
| 1989 | Published Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University |
| 1991-1992 | Visiting Professor, King's College, London |
| 1993 | Published Words to Create a World: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press |
| 1995 | Published Middens of the Tribe: a Poem. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University |
| 2000 | Published Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942-1947. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University |
| 2002 | Published Darkening Water: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University |
| 2002 | Published a translation of Ruth Tassoni's A Play of Mirrors. Stony Brook, N.Y.: Gradiva |
| 2003 | Published Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948-2003. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press |
| 2005 | Published Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets. New York: George Braziller |
| 2009 | Published The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems, New and Selected. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press |
| 2013 | Published Next to Last Words: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press |
| 2013, Mar. 30 | Died, Haverford, Pa. |