On his biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins
When: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 4:00 PM
Where: Saint Clare Room, Learning Commons
The Lecturer
Paul Mariani is the author of over 200 essays and reviews, as well as sixteen books, six of them volumes of poetry. He is also the author of five biographies of poets, including William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Hart Crane and, most recently, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life. All have been listed as Notable Books by the New York Times, and his biography of Williams was nominated for the American Book Award. He has also written four critical studies, including God & the Imagination, as well as a spiritual memoir, Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius. He has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, two from The National Endowment for the Humanities and another from The National Endowment for the Arts. From 1968 until 2000, he taught at the University of Massachusetts, where he served as Distinguished University Professor of English. Since 2000, he has held a Chair in English at Boston College. In 2009 he was presented with the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.
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