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'''Susan Stewart''' (born March 15, 1952) is an [[American poet]] and [[literary critic]]. She is the [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation|Avalon Foundation]] University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, emerita, at [[Princeton University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Susan Stewart {{!}} Department of English|url=https://english.princeton.edu/people/susan-stewart|access-date=2020-06-14|website=english.princeton.edu}}</ref> |
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'''Susan Stewart''' (born March 15, 1952) is an [[American poet]], university professor and [[literary critic]]. |
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In 2023, she was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023</ref> |
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==Life== |
==Life== |
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Professor Stewart holds [[academic degree|degree]]s from [[Dickinson College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[English studies|English]] and [[Anthropology]]), the [[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] in [[Poetics]]) and the [[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Ph.D.]] in [[Folklore]]). |
Professor Stewart holds [[academic degree|degree]]s from [[Dickinson College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[English studies|English]] and [[Anthropology]]), the [[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] in [[Poetics]]) and the [[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Ph.D.]] in [[Folklore]]). |
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She teaches the [[history of poetry]], [[aesthetics]], and the [[philosophy of literature]], most recently at [[Princeton University]].<ref>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/248</ref> |
She teaches the [[history of poetry]], [[aesthetics]], and the [[philosophy of literature]], most recently at [[Princeton University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/248|title = About Susan Stewart | Academy of American Poets}}</ref> |
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Her poems have appeared in many journals including: ''[[The American Poetry Review]], [[The Paris Review]], [[Poetry magazine|Poetry]], [[Tri-Quarterly]], [[Gettysburg Review]], [[Harper's]], [[Georgia Review]], [[Ploughshares]], and [[Beloit Poetry Journal]].'' |
Her poems have appeared in many journals including: ''[[The American Poetry Review]], [[The Paris Review]], [[Poetry magazine|Poetry]], [[Tri-Quarterly]], [[Gettysburg Review]], [[Harper's]], [[Georgia Review]], [[Ploughshares]], and [[Beloit Poetry Journal]].'' |
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In the late 2000s she collaborated with composer [[James Primosch]] on a [[song cycle]] commissioned by the [[Chicago Symphony]] that premiered in the fall of 2009. She has served on the judging panel of the [[Wallace Stevens Award]] on six occasions. |
In the late 2000s she collaborated with composer [[James Primosch]] on a [[song cycle]] commissioned by the [[Chicago Symphony]] that premiered in the fall of 2009. She has served on the judging panel of the [[Wallace Stevens Award]] on six occasions. |
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In 2005 Professor Stewart was elected a [[Chancellor]] of the [[Academy of American Poets]] and a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/faculty/susan-stewart/ |title= |
In 2005 Professor Stewart was elected a [[Chancellor]] of the [[Academy of American Poets]] and a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/faculty/susan-stewart/ |title=Poetry@Princeton » Susan Stewart |access-date=2010-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214000804/http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/faculty/susan-stewart/ |archive-date=2009-12-14 }}</ref> |
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About her work, the poet and critic Allen Grossman has written, |
About her work, the poet and critic Allen Grossman has written, |
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{{block quote|Stewart has built a poetic syntax capable of conveying an utterly singular account of consciousness, by the light of which it is possible to see the structure of the human world with a new clarity and an unforeseen precision, possible only in her presence and by means of her art.<ref>http://www.rochester.edu/College/eng/plutzik/plutzik_calendar.html</ref>}} |
{{block quote|Stewart has built a poetic syntax capable of conveying an utterly singular account of consciousness, by the light of which it is possible to see the structure of the human world with a new clarity and an unforeseen precision, possible only in her presence and by means of her art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/College/eng/plutzik/plutzik_calendar.html|title=Calendar : Plutzik Reading Series : University of Rochester}}</ref>}} |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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* [[Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award]], a [[ |
* [[Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award]], a [[Reader's Digest Writer's Award]] |
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* two [[National Endowment for the Arts]] grants |
* two [[National Endowment for the Arts]] grants |
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* 1986 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] |
* 1986 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/14206-susan-a-stewart |title=Susan A. Stewart - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2010-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603234224/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14206-susan-a-stewart |archive-date=2011-06-03 }}</ref> |
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* 1995 [[Pew Fellowships in the Arts]]<ref>http://www.pcah.us/fellowships/artist-profile/1995-susan-stewart/</ref> |
* 1995 [[Pew Fellowships in the Arts]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pcah.us/fellowships/artist-profile/1995-susan-stewart/|title = Susan Stewart|date = 30 November 2016}}</ref> |
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* 1997 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Foundation Fellowship]] |
* 1997 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Foundation Fellowship]] |
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* 2003 [[Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism]] from [[Phi Beta Kappa]], for ''Poetry and the Fate of the Senses'' |
* 2003 [[Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism]] from [[Phi Beta Kappa]], for ''Poetry and the Fate of the Senses'' |
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* 2003 [[National Book Critics Circle]] award, for ''Columbarium'' |
* 2003 [[National Book Critics Circle]] award, for ''Columbarium'' |
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* 2004 [[Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism]] for ''Poetry and the Fate of the Senses''<ref>https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S07/36/94C60/index.xml?section=</ref> |
* 2004 [[Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism]] for ''Poetry and the Fate of the Senses''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S07/36/94C60/index.xml?section= |title=Princeton University - Poet, critic Susan Stewart earns Truman Capote Award |website=www.princeton.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106153339/http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S07/36/94C60/index.xml?section= |archive-date=2010-11-06}} </ref> |
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==Work== |
==Work== |
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=== Criticism === |
=== Criticism === |
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* {{cite book| title=Nonsense: aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press| year= 1979| isbn= 978-0-8018-2258-2 }} |
* {{cite book| title=Nonsense: aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature| url=https://archive.org/details/nonsenseaspectso0000stew| url-access=registration| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press| year= 1979| isbn= 978-0-8018-2258-2 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Crimes of Writing| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoG5WxYaT-IC& |
* {{cite book| title=Crimes of Writing| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoG5WxYaT-IC&q=Susan+Stewart| publisher=Oxford University Press | year= 1991| isbn= 978-0-19-506617-3 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtLTTAYvBFkC& |
* {{cite book| title=On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtLTTAYvBFkC&q=Susan+Stewart| publisher=Duke University Press| year= 1993| isbn= 978-0-8223-1366-3 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Poetry and the Fate of the Senses| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIWslf1Rm9sC& |
* {{cite book| title=Poetry and the Fate of the Senses| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIWslf1Rm9sC&q=Susan+Stewart| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-226-77414-5 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjerT1F4xIEC& |
* {{cite book| title=The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjerT1F4xIEC&q=Susan+Stewart| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-226-77447-3 }} a collection of her writings on [[contemporary art]]. |
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* {{cite book| title=The Poet's Freedom:A Notebook on Making| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWT8tgAACAAJ| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year= 2011| isbn= 978-0-226-77387-2 }} a meditation on what freedom means to the artist. |
* {{cite book| title=The Poet's Freedom:A Notebook on Making| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWT8tgAACAAJ| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year= 2011| isbn= 978-0-226-77387-2 }} a meditation on what freedom means to the artist. |
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===Poetry=== |
===Poetry=== |
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*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNFwQgAACAAJ& |
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNFwQgAACAAJ&q=yellow+stars+and+ice| title=Yellow Stars and Ice| publisher=Princeton University Press| year=1981| isbn=978-0-691-01379-4}} |
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*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q5DEbVl6DoC& |
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q5DEbVl6DoC&q=hive+susan+stewart| title=The Hive| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year= 1987| isbn=978-0-8203-3267-3 }} |
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*{{cite book| title=The Forest| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewoY5zDojfYC& |
*{{cite book| title=The Forest| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewoY5zDojfYC&q=Susan+Stewart| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year= 1995| isbn= 978-0-226-77410-7}} |
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*{{cite book| title=Columbarium| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf-pavhAZtwC& |
*{{cite book| title=Columbarium| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf-pavhAZtwC&q=Susan+Stewart| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year= 2003| isbn= 978-0-226-77444-2}} |
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*{{cite book| title=Red Rover| url=https:// |
*{{cite book| title=Red Rover| url=https://archive.org/details/redrover00stew| url-access=registration| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2008| isbn=978-0-226-77454-1}} |
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Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017, Graywolf Press) |
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===Translations=== |
===Translations=== |
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* {{cite book| author= |
* {{cite book| author=Euripides| author-link=Euripides| title=Andromache| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3BcqlSsEod4C&q=Susan+Stewart| others=Translators Susan Stewart, Wesley Smith| publisher=Oxford University Press | year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-19-512561-0 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Poesie e prose| author= |
* {{cite book| title=Poesie e prose| author=Scipione| author-link=Scipione|editor1=Brunella Antomarini |editor2=Susan Stewart| publisher=Charta| year= 2001| isbn= 978-88-8158-329-4 }} |
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===Anthologies=== |
===Anthologies=== |
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* {{cite book| title=American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets| editor= David Walker| publisher=Oberlin College Press| year=2006| isbn= 978-0-932440-28-0 }} |
* {{cite book| title=American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets| editor= David Walker| publisher=Oberlin College Press| year=2006| isbn= 978-0-932440-28-0 }} |
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*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yeyJ_UMIlyYC& |
*{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yeyJ_UMIlyYC&q=Susan+Stewart&pg=RA1-PA214| chapter=Apple| title=The Best American Poetry 2001|editor1=Robert Hass |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Simon and Schuster| year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-7432-0384-5 }} |
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==References== |
==References== |
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*[http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stewart.html "Susan Stewart", ''PennSound''] |
*[http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stewart.html "Susan Stewart", ''PennSound''] |
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*[http://slought.org/content/11145/ "On the Art of the Future", ''Slought foundation''] |
*[http://slought.org/content/11145/ "On the Art of the Future", ''Slought foundation''] |
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*[[hdl:10079/fa/beinecke.sstewart|Susan Stewart Papers]]. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. |
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Born | [1] | March 15, 1952
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Dickinson College, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania |
Notable awards | MacArthur Fellow |
Susan Stewart (born March 15, 1952) is an American poet and literary critic. She is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, emerita, at Princeton University.[2] In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]
Life
Professor Stewart holds degrees from Dickinson College (B.A. in English and Anthropology), the Johns Hopkins University (M.F.A. in Poetics) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Folklore). She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University.[4]
Her poems have appeared in many journals including: The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Harper's, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Beloit Poetry Journal.
In the late 2000s she collaborated with composer James Primosch on a song cycle commissioned by the Chicago Symphony that premiered in the fall of 2009. She has served on the judging panel of the Wallace Stevens Award on six occasions.
In 2005 Professor Stewart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]
About her work, the poet and critic Allen Grossman has written,
Stewart has built a poetic syntax capable of conveying an utterly singular account of consciousness, by the light of which it is possible to see the structure of the human world with a new clarity and an unforeseen precision, possible only in her presence and by means of her art.[6]
Awards
- Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award, a Reader's Digest Writer's Award
- two National Endowment for the Arts grants
- 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship[7]
- 1995 Pew Fellowships in the Arts[8]
- 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- 2003 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa, for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
- 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, for Columbarium
- 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses[9]
Work
Criticism
- Nonsense: aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8018-2258-2.
- Crimes of Writing. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-506617-3.
- On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8223-1366-3.
- Poetry and the Fate of the Senses. University of Chicago Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-226-77414-5.
- The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-77447-3. a collection of her writings on contemporary art.
- The Poet's Freedom:A Notebook on Making. University of Chicago Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-226-77387-2. a meditation on what freedom means to the artist.
Poetry
- Yellow Stars and Ice. Princeton University Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-691-01379-4.
- The Hive. University of Georgia Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8203-3267-3.
- The Forest. University of Chicago Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-226-77410-7.
- Columbarium. University of Chicago Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-226-77444-2.
- Red Rover. University of Chicago Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-226-77454-1.
Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017, Graywolf Press)
Translations
- Euripides (2001). Andromache. Translators Susan Stewart, Wesley Smith. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512561-0.
- Scipione (2001). Brunella Antomarini; Susan Stewart (eds.). Poesie e prose. Charta. ISBN 978-88-8158-329-4.
Anthologies
- David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 978-0-932440-28-0.
- Robert Hass; David Lehman, eds. (2001). "Apple". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0384-5.
References
- ^ Org, Poets. "Susan Stewart". poets.org. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Susan Stewart | Department of English". english.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
- ^ https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023
- ^ "About Susan Stewart | Academy of American Poets".
- ^ "Poetry@Princeton » Susan Stewart". Archived from the original on 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ^ "Calendar : Plutzik Reading Series : University of Rochester".
- ^ "Susan A. Stewart - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ^ "Susan Stewart". 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Princeton University - Poet, critic Susan Stewart earns Truman Capote Award". www.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-11-06.
External links
- Bio and additional info from Pew Fellowship
- "Susan Stewart", PennSound
- "On the Art of the Future", Slought foundation
- Susan Stewart Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- 1952 births
- Dickinson College alumni
- American literary critics
- American women literary critics
- Living people
- MacArthur Fellows
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Pew Fellows in the Arts
- American women poets
- American women non-fiction writers
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Members of the American Philosophical Society