The Life And Work Of Nemerov
"Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of
fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to
me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are
all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an
irreverent sense of humor, a mastery of formal verse, an awareness of
mystery" ("Books" 3). Although known primarily as a poet, Howard Nemerov
has also distinguished himself as a critic, short story writer, and
novelist. With nearly four dozen published works, Howard Nemerov has become
one of America's most distinguished men of writing. His subjects range
from all parts of the human mind, from war to ...
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poets, this attraction
gradually grew into terror at the reality of war ("Nemerov" 249). Nemerov
first served as a flying officer with the RAF Coastal Command, attacking
German ships over the North Sea. Then in 1944, he was transferred to the
Eighth United States Army Air Force, based in Lincolnshire. Later he
served in a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force attached to the United
States Air Force. In 1944, he married an English girl, to whom he's still
married. After the war, Nemerov and his wife lived in New York for a year.
During this time, his first volume of poetry, The Image and the Law, was
published. In 1946 he held a position as instructor of English at Hamilton
College, Clinton, New York; in 1948 he joined Bennington College in Vermont
as a teacher, with which he was associated with until 1966, when he moved
to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Nemerov is one of the most productive and proficient writers in the
modern era. Nemerov's first book of ...
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reflected in both his life and his work. Nemerov believes that these
two elements are opposed and that he must attempt to bring them together.
Denis Donoghue states, ". . . this inner division, under constant pressure
of Nemerov's poetic discipline and intelligence, accounts for the power of
this writer who has become, more than any other contemporary poet, the
spokesman for the existential science- oriented . . . , liberal mind of the
twentieth century" (250). This deeply divided personality is evident to
readers of his poetry and fiction.
In his first published work, The Image and the Law, Nemerov's main
theme is death. The title of this book alludes to the two methods humans
have a ...
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