John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims (November 20, 1913 in

) was an American poet and academic.

Life

He graduated from DePaul University, University of Notre Dame with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1945. He published reviews of the works by

.

He was editor of Poetry magazine from 1978 to 1984.^[1]

The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize, for poetry translation, is awarded by the Poetry Foundation.^[2]

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters grant
• National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities grant
• Institute of the Humanities fellowship
• 1982 Academy of American Poets fellowship
• 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship^[3]
• 1991 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
• 1993 O.B. Hardison Prize

Bibliography

• The Powers Of Heaven And Earth: New And Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2002)
• Western wind. Random House. 1992.
  ISBN 978-0-07-046574-9
  .
• Zany in Denim (University of Arkansas Press, 1990)
• The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems. New Directions Publishing. 1990.
  ISBN 978-0-8112-1143-7. John Frederick Nims., selected for the New York Public Library's Ninety from the Nineties
  .
• The Kiss: A Jambalaya (1982)
• Selected poems. University of Chicago Press. 1982.
  ISBN 978-0-226-58118-7
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• Of Flesh and Bone (1967)
• Knowledge of the Evening (1960), which was nominated for a National Book Award
• A Fountain in Kentucky (1950)
• The Iron Pastoral. William Sloane Associates. 1947.
• Five Young American Poets (1944)

Anthologies

• Robert Hedin, ed. (1996). "Trainwrecked Soldiers". The great machines: poems and songs of the American railroad. University of Iowa Press. p. 34.
  ISBN 978-0-87745-550-9
  . John Frederick Nims.

Translations

• Euripides: Four Tragedies (1958)
• Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation (1971)
• Saint John of the Cross (1979). Poems of St. John of the Cross. Translated by John Frederick Nims. University of Chicago Press.
  ISBN 978-0-226-40110-2
  .
• Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (1983)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (1998). The complete poems of Michelangelo. Translated by John Frederick Nims. University of Chicago Press.
  ISBN 978-0-226-08033-8
  .

Editor

• Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding
  Translation of 1567 (1965)
• John Frederick Nims, ed. (1981). The Harper anthology of poetry. Harper & Row.
  ISBN 978-0-06-044847-9
  .

Criticism

• Martin Lammon, ed. (1996). "The Greatest English Lyric?". Written in water, written in stone: twenty years of Poets on poetry. University of Michigan Press.
  ISBN 978-0-472-06634-6
  .

References

External links

• William Baer, ed. (2009). Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets. University Press of Mississippi.
  ISBN 978-1-60473-256-6
  .