| 词条 | Aileen Ward |
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| name = Aileen Ward | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|04|01}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date|2016|05|31}} | death_place = | nationality = USA | other_names = | occupation = Professor of English Literature | years_active = | known_for = "The Making of a Poet" | notable_works = }} Aileen Ward (1 April 1919 – 31 May 2016), was an American professor of English literature who won both a National Book Award and a Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for her book "The Making of a Poet". Early life and educationAileen Coursen Ward was born on April 1, 1919, in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in Summit, N.J. Her father, Waldron, was a lawyer; her mother was the former Aline Coursen.[1] After earning a B.A. in English from Smith College in 1940, she enrolled in Radcliffe College, where she was awarded her M.A. in 1942 and a doctorate in 1953. Her dissertation was on poetic metaphor.[1] Academic careerProfessor Ward taught at Wellesley and Barnard. She joined the Vassar English department in 1954. Later in her career Ward taught at Sarah Lawrence, Brandeis and New York University. She retired in 1990.[1] Ward spent nine years researching “John Keats: The Making of a Poet".[1] The book won two major awards, the 1964 National Book Award (in the category Arts and Letters (nonfiction)),[2] and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize of 1963.[3] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966. [4] Selected works
Personal lifeWard died on May 31, 2016. At the time she was still working on a biography of William Blake, as she had been for nearly 50 years.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|last1=Grimes|first1=William|title=Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/books/aileen-ward-scholar-and-biographer-dies-at-97.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0|publisher=New York Times|date=June 8, 2016}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Aileen}}2. ^https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1964#.V1gl2JMrLsk 3. ^http://www.theduffcooperprize.org/past-duff-cooper-prize-winners/3 4. ^ {{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/aileen-ward/|title=Aileen Ward|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|accessdate= 17 December 2018}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/08/306233702.pdf|publisher=New York Times|last=Baker|first=Carlos|title=In three Short Years an "Audacious Act of Self Creation"|date=September 8, 1963}} 7 : 1919 births|2016 deaths|Smith College alumni|Radcliffe College alumni|American academics of English literature|American biographers|Guggenheim Fellows |
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