William Meredith | Author

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Canonical name: Meredith, William
Legal name: Meredith, William Morris, Jr.
Birthdate: 1919-01-09
Date of death: 2007-05-30
Gender: male
Education: Princeton University ( [1940])
Lenox School, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Occupations: poet
professor
editor
translator
opera critic
librettist (show all 8)
literary critic
essayist
Organizations: United States Army Air Force (1941-42)
United States Navy
United States Naval Reserve (1946-52)
Princeton University (1946)
University of Hawaii (1950)
Connecticut College (1955) (show all 14)
The Hudson Review (1955)
Bread Loaf School of English
Academy of American Poets (chancellor)
Bread Loaf Writer's Conference (instructor)
Upward Bound Program, Connecticut College (founder)
Connecticut College (1965)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (secretary)
Fellowship of Southern Writers
Awards and honors: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1978-1980)
Air Medal (2)
Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize (1944)
Van Wyck Brooks Award (1971)
Loines Prize (1966)
International Vaptsarov Prize for Literature (1979) (show all 16)
Connecticut College Medal (1996)
Oscar Blumenthal Prize (1953)
Carl Sandburg Award (1979)
National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship in recognition of life's work (1984)
Guggenheim fellow (1975-76)
Academy of American Poets fellowship (1990)
Honorary Bulgarian Citizenship (1996)
Laurel Poetry Series (editor)
Borestone Mountain Poetry Award
Lifetime Achievement Award (Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, 2007)
Relationships: Shain, Charles (friend)
Harteis, Richard (partner)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: New London, Connecticut, USA
Burial location: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Effort At Speech: New And Selected Poems by William Meredith

Mediocre odes to insignificant moments in the author's life. These are almost comically lame "poems," with hardly any flow or artistry whatsoever. Too many specific names and places are mentioned which mean nothing to anyone other the author. I'm clueless as to how this was a National Book Award finalist.

½

Aug 5, 2014 (Edited)