Theodore Weiss (poet)
Theodore Russell Weiss was an American poet, and literary magazine editor.Life
He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1938 and Columbia University in 1940. He was an instructor at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of North Carolina, Yale University, and Bard College. He taught at Princeton University, until retirement in 1987.
He edited Quarterly Review of Literature, which published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound.
In 1987, he was the subject of a documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem, made by Harvey Edwards.Awards
Poetry
- The World Before Us: Poems, 1950-1970
- Fireweeds,
- A Slow Fuse: New Poems
- A Sum of Destructions,
Essays
- The Breath of Clowns and Kings, a study of Shakespeare's early comedies and histories
- The Man From Porlock: Engagements, 1944-1981, a collection of essays.
Edited
- Selections From the Notebooks of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
