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John Frederick Nims

Born: 11/20/1913   Muskegon , MI
Died: 01/19/1999
Parents: Frank McReynolds Nims, Anne Nims
Children: deceased: John, George; Frank, Sarah Hoyt, Emily Anne
Address(es):
Last known address:
Chicago , IL

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The complete poems of Michelangelo
- translated by John Frederick Nims. 		Poetry Adult Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press 1998
The Six-Cornered Snowflake and other poems Poetry Adult New York, N.Y. : New Directions 1990
Zany in denim Poetry Adult Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press 1990
A Local Habitation; Essays on Poetry Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 1985
Image of Selected Poems Selected Poems Poetry Adult Chicago : University of Chicago Press 1982
The Kiss: A Jambalaya Poetry Adult Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1982
Western Mind; an introduction to poetry Non Fiction Adult New York, Random House 1974
Sappho to Valéry: poems in translation Non Fiction , Poetry Adult New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press 1971
Of Flesh and Bone Poetry Adult New Brunswick, N. J. : Rutgers University Press 1967
Knowledge of the Evening; poems, 1950-1960 Poetry Adult New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press 1960
The Poems of St. John of the Cross. Original Spanish texts and new English versions Non Fiction , Poetry Adult New York, Grove Press 1959
A Fountain in Kentucky, and other poems Poetry Adult New York, Sloane 1950
The Iron Pastoral Poetry Adult New York, William Sloane Associates 1947
Other works:
- Contributor to anthologies, magazines

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Wayne State University Detroit , MI

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Editorial adviser Princeton University Press Princeton 1975 -1982
Editor Ovid's Metamorphoses 1965
faculty University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago , IL 1965 -1985
faculty
- 1964, 1968-1969, summer 1974 		Harvard University Cambridge 1964 -1969
faculty University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign , IL 1961 -1965
faculty University of Madrid Madrid, Spain 1958 -1960
University of Florence Florence, Italy 1953 -1954
Faculty Bocconi University Milan, Italy 1952 -1953
Member of editorial board Poetry Magazine 1945 -1948
Faculty University of Toronto Toronto 1945 -1946
Faculty
- not '45-46, and 52-54 		University of Notre Dame Notre Dame 1939 -1958

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