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Daniel G. Hoffman

Columbia College, Class of 1947

Vital

Full name
Daniel G. Hoffman

Columbia & the Society

Columbia
Class of 1947 (Columbia College)

Works (22)

  1. 1952 Paul Bunyan, Last of the Frontier Demigods · Temple University Publications
  2. 1954 An Armada of Thirty Whales · Yale University Press
  3. 1957 The Poetry of Stephen Crane · Columbia University Press
  4. 1960 A Little Geste and Other Poems · Oxford University Press
  5. 1961 Form and Fable in American Fiction · Oxford University Press
  6. 1963 The City of Satisfactions · Oxford University Press
  7. 1967 Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir · Oxford University Press
  8. 1968 Striking the Stones · Oxford University Press
  9. 1970 Broken Laws · Oxford University Press
  10. 1971 Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe · Doubleday
  11. 1974 The Center of Attention · Random House
  12. 1981 Brotherly Love · Random House
  13. 1988 Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948–1988 · Louisiana State University Press
  14. 1989 Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha · Louisiana State University Press
  15. 1993 Words to Create a World: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry · University of Michigan Press
  16. 1995 Middens of the Tribe · Louisiana State University Press
  17. 2000 Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942–1947 · Louisiana State University Press
  18. 2002 Darkening Water · Louisiana State University Press
  19. 2003 Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948–2003 · Louisiana State University Press
  20. 2005 Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets · George Braziller
  21. 2009 The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems · Louisiana State University Press
  22. 2013 Next to Last Words: Poems · Louisiana State University Press

Primary sources

Columbia College Today & other articles

Columbia College Today — vol. 41 (~2001), Class of 1948 alumni class notes — reminiscence by Ted Melnechuk '48 about Sylvain Bromberger
Sylvain Bromberger, back in our student days at Columbia, was one of the literary bunch who revived the Philolexian Society and edited or wrote for the Columbia Review; others included Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Gold '46, Daniel G. Hoffman '47, John Hollander '50, Norman Kelvin, Louis Simpson '49GS, and me.

One of the mid/late-1940s revivers of the Philolexian Society.

Columbia College Today — vol. 41 (~2001), Class of 1948 alumni class notes — reminiscence by Ted Melnechuk '48 about Sylvain Bromberger →

External references

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