John Frederick Nims - Bibliography

Poet, born in Muskegon, Michigan, USA. He studied at the University of Notre Dame (1937 BA; 1939 MA) and the University of Chicago (1945 PhD), and taught at many institutions, including Notre Dame (1939–45, 1946–62), the University of Illinois, Urbana (1961–4), and at the Chicago branch (1965–73, 1977–85). The editor of Poetry magazine (1978–84), he also served as a poetry judge for the National Book Awards (1969), the American Book Awards (1970–1), and the Bollingen Prize (1987). He has been praised for his translations of the Greek tragedies, and for his intelligent, witty poetry, as in Of Flesh and Bone (1967) and Selected Poems (1982).

John Frederick Nims was an American poet born in 1913 in Muskegon, Michigan and died in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois. He taught English at Harvard University, the University of Florence, the University of Toronto, the Bread Loaf School of English, Williams College, and the University of Missouri, among others.

Bibliography

Zany in Denim (University of Arkansas Press, 1990) The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems (1990) The Kiss: A Jambalaya (1982) Knowledge of the Evening (1960), which was nominated for a National Book Award A Fountain in Kentucky (1950 The Iron Pastoral (1947) Five Young American Poets (1944)

He is also the author of many translations:

Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation (1971 Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (1983) Metamorphoses (1965) Poems of St. John of the Cross (1959) Euripides: Four Tragedies (1958)