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Richard (Joseph) Howard | | Birth Date: |
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 Biography of Richard Howard
4,527 words, approx. 15 pages
 Richard Howard, poet, translator, and critic, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He writes sophisticated, learned, and witty verse and is a craftsman in an era during which most poets have ignored technical skills. In the Eastern literary establishment, he... 
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 Richard Howard Information
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 Richard Howard (b. 13 October 1929) is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where now teaches. He lives in New York City. After...
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 Parnassus : Poetry in Review Hall of Voices: Richard Howard
01/01/2006: 6,293 words, approx. 21 pages Hall of Voices: Richard Howard Richard Howard. Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004. 428 pp. $16.00 (paper) Richard Howard. Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004. 434 pp. $16.00 (paper) Richard Howard. The Silent Treatment.... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Richard Howard; Botanist Directed Arnold Arboretum
09/23/2003: 654 words, approx. 2 pages Dr. Richard Alden Howard was a botanist of international repute who spent years doing research and decades teaching at Harvard. He also wrote an exhaustive six-volume compendium of the flora of the Lesser Antilles. But he was no ivory-tower scientist. For years he... summary from source:
 AP News Photos, evidence shown at Lunsford trial
3/3/2007: 333 words, approx. 1 pagesProsecutors on Friday showed jurors photographs of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford's body after it was unearthed and a blood-stained mattress as the trial of the convicted sex offender accused of killing her began.John Evander Couey, 48, is accused of sneaking into the Lunsford home the night... summary from source:
AP News Death sentence endorsed in Lunsford case
3/15/2007: 597 words, approx. 2 pagesA jury decided Wednesday that a convicted sex offender should get the death penalty for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive in trash bags just yards from her home.The jury, on a 10-2 vote, brushed aside pleas for...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Henry Sloss
2,416 words, approx. 8 pages
Like Good and Bad Angels, two spirits of very different kinds are at work in Richard Howard's six books of poetry to date. One is genial and generous, and shows itself in the two best known of the volumes, Untitled Subjects (1969) and Two-Part Inventions (1974)…. [The] measure of the heights to which the books rise can best be taken in terms of pleasure. There is an ampleness about the books that is perhaps the sine qua non of pleasure itself. For the reader of the poetry entire, however, the ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert K. Martin
1,107 words, approx. 4 pages
Richard Howard's verse is elegant and cultured, tasteful and erudite. A man of learning and a connoisseur, he brings to his poetry a mind trained in the rigors of French poetics and an ear attuned to the rhythms of Ronsard as well as those of Browning. In these days of vatic pronouncements and True Confessions, he remains a voice of civilization, a man trained in an older tradition. His poems speak clearly of his commitment to the mind and to precision of expression.
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Critical Essay by John R. Reed
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More than ever, Richard Howard's poems convey the sense of personal history transformed into a fable that is worth hearing. There is a powerful personality behind the poems of Fellow Feelings, and the individual pieces, from the opening poem "Decades," to "Howard's Way" and "Compulsive Qualifications," to "The Giant on Giant Killing" and "Vocational Guidance," convey this personality with a clarity that relates it to somethi...
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