Theodore Weiss (poet)

Theodore Weiss (Dec. 16, 1916 Reading, Pennsylvania - April 15, 2003 Princeton, New Jersey) was an American poet, and literary magazine editor.

Life
Weiss was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1938 and Columbia University in 1940. He was an instructor at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of North Carolina, Yale University, and Bard College.

He edited (with his wife, Renee Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature, which published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound.

Weiss taught at Princeton University, until retirement in 1987. He died in Princeton, New Jersey.

Recognition
In 1987, Weiss was the subject of a documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem, made by Harvey Edwards.

In 1997 he was awarded the Oscar Williams-Gene Derwood Award for lifetime achievement by the New York Community.

Awards

 * 1956 Wallace Stevens Awards
 * 1977 Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Poetry
 * 1988-89 Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award
 * 1997 Oscar Williams and Gene Durwood Award for Poetry
 * 1997 PEN/Nora Magid Lifetime Achievement Award
 * Guggenheim fellowship
 * Ford Foundation fellowship
 * National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities fellowship
 * Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship.

Poetry

 * The Catch. New York: Twayne, 1951.
 * Outlanders. New York: [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan], 1960.
 * Gunsight. New York: New York University Press, 1962.
 * The Medium. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
 * The Last Day and the First. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
 * The World before Us: Poems 1950-1970. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
 * Fireweeds. New York: Macmillan, 1976.
 * Views and Spectacles: Selected poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978
 * published as Views and Spectacles: New poems and selected shorter poems. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
 * Recoveries: A poem. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
 * A Slow Fuse: New poems. New York: Macmillan, 1984.
 * From Princeton One Autumn Afternoon: Collected poems of Theodore Weiss, 1950-1986. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
 * A Sum of Destructions. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge), 1994.
 * Selected Poems. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 1995.

Non-fiction

 * Gerard Manley Hopkins, Realist on Parnassus. privately printed, 1940; Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1976.
 * (Contributor) Angel Flores, editor, The Kafka Problem (edited by Angel Flores). New York: New Directions, 1946.
 * The Breath of Clowns and Kings: Shakespeare's early comedies and histories. New York: Atheneum, 1971.
 * The Man from Porlock: Engagements, 1944-1981 (essays). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Edited

 * (Editor) Selections from the Note-Books of Gerard Manley Hopkins. New York: New Directions, 1945.
 * (Editor with wife, Renée Karol Weiss) David Schubert, Works and Days. Quarterly Review of Literature, 1984.

''Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.

Audio / video
Contributor of sound recordings to Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress (Washington, DC), including
 * Theodore Russell Weiss Reading His Poems with Comment at Potosi, Glen Rock, PA, Feb. 9, 1959, 1959;
 * Malcolm Cowley and Theodore Russell Weiss Reading and Discussing Their Poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, April 7, 1969, 1969; and
 * Theodore Russell Weiss Reading His Poems in the Recording Laboratory, Mar. 25, 1974,,  1974.

Weiss's poetry has also been recorded for the Yale Series of Recorded Poets, Lamont Library of Harvard University, and Voice of America.

''Except where noted, discographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.