William Jay Smith Biography (Biografia) English

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William Jay Smith
He was born in 1918 in Winnfield, Louisiana. He studied at Washington University, Columbia University, and at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith served as a poetryconsultant to the Library of Congress (the position now known as the U.S. Poet Laureate) from 1968 until 1970, and has been a member of The Academy of Arts and Letters since 1975, as well as a formervice-president for literature. He serves as the Professor Emeritus of English at Hollins University
Smith has won awards from both the French Academy, the Swedish Academy, and the Hungariangovernment. Two of his poems were nominated for the National Book Award. Smith was a poet in residence at Williams College from 1959-1967, Chairman of the Writing Division of the School of Arts at ColumbiaUniversity from 1973 until 1975. Smith made a reputation as a translator and he edited and translated other poetry from several languages. In an era when most poets have chosen to craft free verse,Smith has created work.
He presently lives in houses located in both Cummington, Massachusetts and Paris, France. He serves as the Professor Emeritus of English at Hollins University
Smith’s firstcollections of poems, Poems (1947) and Celebration at Dark (1950), reveal the breadth of his narrative range, and with The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966) he began to experiment with free verse.His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 was published in 1990 and The World Below the Window: Poems, 1937–1997 in 1998.
Smith began collecting his whimsical and nonsense poems for children in Laughing Time (1955)andBoy Blue’s Book of Beasts (1957); his later collections of children’s poetry include Typewriter Town(1960), Ho for a Hat! (1964; rev. ed., 1989), Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1990), andAround MyRoom (2000). He also edited several volumes of children’s poetry.

William Jay Smith
He was born in 1918 in Winnfield, Louisiana. He studied at Washington University, Columbia University, and...
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