The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Louis Simpson
Vital
- Full name
- Louis Simpson
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1949 (General Studies)
Works (30)
- 1949 The Arrivistes: Poems, 1940–1949 · Fine Editions Press
- 1955 Good News of Death · Poets of Today, Vol. 2
- 1959 A Dream of Governors: Poems · Wesleyan University Press
- 1962 James Hogg: A Critical Study · St. Martin's Press
- 1962 Riverside Drive · Atheneum
- 1963 At the End of the Open Road · Wesleyan University Press
- 1965 Selected Poems · Harcourt, Brace &
- 1968 An Introduction to Poetry · Macmillan
- 1971 Adventures of the Letter I · Harper &
- 1972 Air with Armed Men · London Magazine Editions
- 1972 North of Jamaica · Harper &
- 1975 Three on the Tower: The Lives and Works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams · William Morrow
- 1976 Searching for the Ox · Oxford University Press
- 1978 A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell · Macmillan
- 1979 Armidale · The Book Bus
- 1980 Caviare at the Funeral · Franklin Watts
- 1981 A Company of Poets · University of Michigan Press
- 1983 The Best Hour of the Night · Ticknor &
- 1983 People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949–83 · BOA Editions
- 1986 The Character of the Poet · University of Michigan Press
- 1988 Collected Poems · Paragon House
- 1989 Selected Prose · Paragon House
- 1990 In the Room We Share · Paragon House
- 1994 Ships Going Into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry · University of Michigan Press
- 1994 The King My Father's Wreck · Story Line Press
- 1995 There You Are: Poems · Story Line Press
- 1997 Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology · Story Line Press
- 2003 The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940–2001 · BOA Editions
- 2009 Struggling Times · BOA Editions
- 2010 Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems · Bloodaxe Books
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.
External references
Community-maintained record
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