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)
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 hopeless...
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Sentences (1980)
Diverse poems, epigrams, and riddles deal with mortality, the natural world, reality versus art, and the nature of poetry
