Willis Barnstone
Autore di The Other Bible
Sull'Autore
Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine. He attended Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale, earning his doctorate. Barnstone taught in Greece from 1949 to 1951, and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. He went to China during the Cultural Revolution, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American mostra altro Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University from 1984 to 1985. Barnstone has authored more than forty books, poetry collections, poetry translations, philosophical and religious texts. He is a former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and is in the Institute of Biblical and Literary Studies at Indiana University. He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation. Barnstone was also a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. His titles include The Complete Poems of Sappho,, Translated with an Introduction, Ancient Greek Lyrics, Love Poems, and Café de l'Aube à Paris, Dawn Café in Paris: Poems Composed in French and Their Translation in English. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Willis Barnstone
The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas (2009) — Traduttore — 68 copie
Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia… (1993) — Editor and translator — 21 copie
Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation (2017) — Traduttore — 17 copie
A Bird of Paper: Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (International Poetry Series) (1982) — Traduttore — 9 copie
Literatures of Latin America 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1927-11-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Lewiston, Maine, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Beijing, China
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Istruzione
- Bowdoin College (BA)
University of Paris (Sorbonne)
University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Columbia University (MA)
Yale University (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- poet
translator
distinguished professor emeritus (Comparative Literature and Spanish)
Biblical scholar - Relazioni
- Barnstone, Elli (wife)
Barnstone, Tony (son)
Barnstone, Aliki (daughter) - Organizzazioni
- Wesleyan University
Colgate University
Indiana University
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 42
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 2,690
- Popolarità
- #9,550
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 75
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1