Richard Howard
Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howardis an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches. He lives in New York City...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 October 1929
teacher giving needs
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
reverse propose prose
Prose proposes, verse reverses.
sexy taken mirrors
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.
paraphrase translations
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.