Stanley Plumly

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American poet (1939-2019)

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::summary American poet (1939-2019) ::

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Biography

Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio in a working class family with a farmland. He grew up in Ohio and Virginia. His working-class upbringing on farmland would feature heavily in his poetry and books. His upbringing was also influenced by Quakerism.

He graduated from Wilmington College in Ohio and taught for a number of years at Ohio University, where he helped found The Ohio Review. He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland from 1985 to 2009. He was called "the most English American poet" and held Keats in high regard.

Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at the age 79 of multiple myeloma.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

  • How the Plains Indians Got Horses (Best Cellar Press, 1973)

  • Giraffe (Louisiana Press, 1974)

  • Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco/Viking, 1977)

  • Summer Celestial (Ecco/Norton, 1983)

  • {{cite book | last = Plumly | first = Stanley | title = Boy on the Step | publisher = Ecco/Norton | year = 1989 | location = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/boyonsteppoems00plum | isbn = 0-88001-228-5 | url-access = registration

  • {{cite book | last = Plumly | first = Stanley | title = The Marriage in the Trees | publisher = Ecco Press | year = 1997 | location = Hopewell, NJ | url = http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=12&ti=1,12&SEQ=20060727181729&Search%5FArg=Plumly&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=25&PID=23954&SID=1 | isbn = 0-88001-487-3 }}

  • {{cite book | last = Plumly | first = Stanley | title = Now that my father lies down beside me : new & selected poems, 1970 to 2000 | publisher = Ecco Press | year = 2000 | location =New York | url = http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=13&ti=1,13&SEQ=20060727181035&Search%5FArg=Plumly&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=25&PID=23954&SID=1 | isbn = 0-06-019659-9 }}

  • Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007)

  • Orphan Hours (W. W. Norton, 2012)

  • Against Sunset (W. W. Norton, 2016)

  • Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, 2020)

List of poems

::data[format=table] | Title | |Year | |First published | |Reprinted/collected | |---|---|---|---| | Brownfields | 2013 | | | ::

As editor

Nonfiction

  • Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008)
  • The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner With Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb (W. W. Norton, 2014)
  • Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime (W. W. Norton, 2018)

Honors

  • Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland
  • Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2015
  • John William Corrington Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, 2010
  • Beall Award in Biography from PEN, 2009
  • Paterson Poetry Prize, 2008
  • LA Times Book Prize, 2008
  • Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, 1972
  • Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
  • Pushcart Prize on six occasions
  • Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence

Fellowships

References

References

  1. "Stanley Plumly". Poetry.org.
  2. Foundation, Poetry. (2024-02-06). "Stanley Plumly".
  3. Sandomir, Richard. (2019-04-16). "Stanley Plumly, Lyrical Poet Influenced by Keats, Dies at 79". The New York Times.
  4. (1989). "The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry". Longman.
  5. Schudel, Matt. (April 13, 2019). "Stanley Plumly, Maryland poet laureate who wrote of nature and memory, dies at 79". [[The Washington Post]].
  6. "Middle Distance".
  7. Brittany Borghi, [http://now.uiowa.edu/2015/07/stanley-plumly-receives-truman-capote-award "Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award"], ''Iowa Now'', July 1, 2015.
  8. "Stanley Plumly - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation".

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