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Born in 1913 / Died in 2000 / United States / English

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Library of Congress, Washington, DC, consultant in poetry, 1946-47; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, associate professor of writing, 1947-50; Poetry, Chicago, IL, editor, 1950-56; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, professor of English, 1956-66; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, professor of English, 1966-68; University of California, Davis, professor of English, 1968-85. Lecturer in India, summer of 1955, for U.S. Department of State. Visiting professor or lecturer at University of Wisconsin, 1948, Loyola University, 1951-52, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1952, University of California, 1955-56, and Indiana University, 1956-57. Member, Bollingen Prize Committee, 1949.