John Frederick Nims
John Frederick Nims was an American poet and academic.
Life
He graduated from DePaul University, University of Notre Dame with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1945.
He published reviews of the works by Robert Lowell and W. S. Merwin. He taught English at Harvard University, the University of Florence, the University of Toronto, Williams College, University of Missouri, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He was editor of Poetry magazine from 1978 to 1984.
The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize, for poetry translation, is awarded by the Poetry Foundation.Awards
Translations
- Euripides: Four Tragedies
- Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation
- Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
Editor
- Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567
Criticism
