Richard Howard Loves Henry James

“[Howard] does remarkable impersonations of other figures. But behind it is a kind of meditation about being a person, and how to be a person and become an artist.” —Edward Hirsch, The Paris Review

“I think of Richard Howard as a very central figure in our culture, maintaining and giving eloquent voice and illustration to standards that are in peril today.” —Susan Sontag

“What seems unarguable … is that in the landscape of American poetry no other poet, setting up a homestead for himself, has toiled so diligently to breed such a herd (of poems that take artists as their subject): creatures whose dam is art and whose sire is art.” —Brad Leithauser, The New York Times

“Richard’s work in and on behalf of poetry is, precisely, an antidote to hopelessness.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, Los Angeles Review of Books

Richard Howard is a poet, critic, and translator. He has published over 150 translations from the French and nearly twenty volumes of poetry, which often find him speaking through–or to–literary figures ranging from Charles Baudelaire to Oscar Wilde. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the PEN Translation Award. He lives in New York City.

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