Theodore Weiss

Theodore Weiss studied at Columbia University and Muhlenberg College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is literature and editing. Employment is recorded with Princeton University, Yale University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Distinctions recorded are Shelley Memorial Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Theodore Weiss • Birth Name — Theodore Russell Weiss • Born — 16 December 1916 • Birthplace — Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Died — 15 April 2003 • Place of death — Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. • Occupation — * Poet • editor • Education — Muhlenberg College Columbia University • Awards — Shelley Memorial Award (1989) • Spouse — Renee Karol Weiss

He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1938 and Columbia University in 1940. He was an instructor at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of North Carolina, Yale University, and Bard College. He taught at Princeton University, until retirement in 1987. He edited (with his wife, Renee Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature, which published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound. In 1987, he was the subject of a documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem, made by Harvey Edwards.

• The World Before Us: Poems, 1950-1970 (Macmillan, 1970) • Fireweeds (Macmillan, 1976), • A Slow Fuse: New Poems (Macmillan, 1984) • A Sum of Destructions (Louisiana State University Press, 1995),

• The Breath of Clowns and Kings (Atheneum, 1971), a study of Shakespeare's early comedies and histories • The Man From Porlock: Engagements, 1944-1981 (Princeton University Press, 1982), a collection of essays.

• Selections From the Notebooks of Gerard Manley Hopkins (New Directions, 1945).