Daniel Hoffman was born in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946 and was decorated with the Legion of Merit. He was educated at Columbia University, receiving his B.A. ...
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Critical Essay by Howard Nemerov
Mr. Hoffman's poetry [in An Armada of Thirty Whales] is extremely detailed in its observation of nature, and his clams and snails and pears and whales yield int...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Holden
In [the] second paragraph [of Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe], Poe is 'complex, inspired, limited, pretentious, uncompromising, banal'; on page three his ar...
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Critical Essay by Peter Cooley
Probably Daniel Hoffman writes as well as any poet in America today, but The Center of Attention … won't extend his reputation and it suffers from the same...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Waterman
The palindromic title given [Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba] intimates Hoffman's delight in verbal play; also perhaps a lack of stylistic "development"...
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Critical Essay by Judith Moffett
Hoffman, like Winters, like the New Critics, like Berryman, Jarrell, Hollander, and a few others, is one of the minority of true writer/scholar/teacher hybrids whose i...
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Critical Essay by John Alexander Allen
The title [of Hoffman's selected poems]—Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba—is appropriate in at least two ways. With its reference to Napoleon'...
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Critical Essay by W. H. Auden
A poet today, particularly perhaps if he is an American like Mr. Hoffman, who sets out to take his themes from Nature is in a very different and much more difficult situa...
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Critical Essay by M. L. Rosenthal
Part of Daniel Hoffman's Striking the Stones attempts a … fusion of irony, wisdom, and poignancy, but this aspect of Hoffman's work lacks …...
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Critical Essay by Richard Howard
[The poems in An Armada of Thirty Whales] enjoy an access of individual being, whatever influences they preen themselves upon, which results from a pronounced form, ut...
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Critical Essay by William Sylvester
Daniel Hoffman's poems are affective. His poems convey the sense of a mood that hovers around an experience, and becomes part of the experience. To show what...
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Critical Essay by Jan W. Dietrichson
Daniel Hoffman stands in the front rank of American scholar-critics today. He does not easily fit into any one critical category: it is possible to regard him as o...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Part historical epic, part research paper, part tour de force, Daniel Hoffman's [Brotherly Love] is first and foremost a curiosity. It's not so strang...
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Critical Essay by Paul Breslin
In his ["Brotherly Love"], Mr. Hoffman uses extensive scholarly research as the basis of a regional epic on the founding of Pennsylvania, and more particul...
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Critical Essay by Monroe K. Spears
[No] long poem has yet established itself as at once American, a sustained poetic success, and attractive to a wide audience.
Brotherly Love seems to me to qualify o...
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Critical Essay by James Finn Cotter
Brotherly Love has all the makings of an epic: the founding of a new land, a hero of stature, his odyssey and struggle toward self-fulfillment and identity, an invo...
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Daniel (Gerard) Hoffman
