Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Howard Nemerov
Primary Contributions (2)
Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.) Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and…
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Publications (4)
The Salt Garden; Poems (September 2021)
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The Oak in the Acorn On Remembrance of Things Past, and on Teaching Proust, who Will Never Learn (1987)
Book by Nemerov, Howard
Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (July 1981)
The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life.
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
"Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "—Minneapolis Tribune
"The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a...
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The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
"Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "—Minneapolis Tribune
"The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a...
Sentences (1980)
Diverse poems, epigrams, and riddles deal with mortality, the natural world, reality versus art, and the nature of poetry
