Karl Shapiro

[t...@antigo.com]

Hi,

I'm doing an Adopt-a-poet project for my Enlgish class, and I have Karl
Shapiro. Does anyone know of a book or possibly a web site with
good information on him? I can't seem to find much. Thanks for any
information you can give me.

Tim Lindner
t...@antigo.com

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[Karen Tellefsen]

Any good anthology of modern American poetry should have a bit on
Shapiro. He's hardly obscure. Try the public library.

I tried Yahoo:

Karl Shapiro

Karl Shapiro (b. 1913) is an American poet and
literary critic who was born in Baltimore,
Maryland. He was strongly influenced by the
works of W. H. Auden, Walt Whitman, and William
Carlos Williams. His work has been recognized
with a number of major awards, including the
Pulitzer prize for V-Letter and Other Poems in
1945; he later became consultant in poetry at the
Library of Congress. He also published a novel,
an autobiography, and poetry anthologies. Shapiro
has taught at many universities, including Johns
Hopkins University, University of Nebraska,
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, and
University of California, Davis. His papers consist of
correspondence, memorabilia, work papers, publications,
and photographs and are mostly from
1940 to 1944. A preliminary inventory has been prepared.

Karl Shapiro Home Page

"During World War II, and well before the Beats
and the counter-culture movement, Shapiro boldly
voiced his opposition to the high Modernism of
T. S. Eliot and the New Criticism that had
dominated literature and the Academy since the
Thirties . . . despite receiving numerous honors and
holding prestigious literary positions, (Shapiro)
has managed, by circumstances, temperament, and
his own strong will, to remain an outsider."

-Joseph Parisi
from Poets in Person: a listener's guide

[Bruce Tindall]

In article <8593420...@dejanews.com>, <t...@antigo.com> wrote:
>I'm doing an Adopt-a-poet project for my Enlgish class, and I have Karl
>Shapiro. Does anyone know of a book or possibly a web site with
>good information on him? I can't seem to find much. Thanks for any
>information you can give me.

Shapiro has written an autobiography ("Poet: An Autobiography
in Three Parts") in which he refers to himself in the third person
("the poet") and which reads like a novel. I think only the first
two parts have come out so far. He's also published a few volumes
of essays and criticism (e.g. "In Defense of Ignorance"). Maybe
you could obtain these from Interlibrary Loan if your library does
not have them.

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