Marie Borroff
Encyclopedia
Marie E. Borroff is an American poet
, translator, and the Sterling Professor Emerita in English at Yale University
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with a BA and MA in 1946, and from Yale University
with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale, and in 1965 was the first woman appointed to be a professor of English. She retired in 1994.
She was one of the first two women to be granted tenure in any department in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and in 1991 she became the first woman on the faculty ever to be named a Sterling Professor, the highest honor bestowed on Yale faculty.
An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, translator, and the Sterling Professor Emerita in English at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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Life
She graduated from the University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
with a BA and MA in 1946, and from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale, and in 1965 was the first woman appointed to be a professor of English. She retired in 1994.
She was one of the first two women to be granted tenure in any department in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and in 1991 she became the first woman on the faculty ever to be named a Sterling Professor, the highest honor bestowed on Yale faculty.
An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.
Reviews
After reading Stars and Other Signs all spring, I have rediscovered my old appreciation for lyric poetry. Marie Borroff, the purest American poet since Wallace Stevens, assumes the master's high lyric calling. It is an influence beset with danger. Thankfully, Borroff takes Stevens in a different direction from poets like John Ashbery. She has not been seduced by "poetry." She returns us to a world we did not make.
External links
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1-19)", Norton Anthology of English Literature
- Guest lecture on Wallace StevensWallace StevensWallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...
focusing on the poem The Auroras of AutumnThe Auroras of AutumnThe Auroras of Autumn is a 1950 book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. It features the 1948 Stevens poem of the same name, whose title refers to the Aurora Borealis, or the "Northern Lights", in the fall...
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