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Jeremy Ingalls

Born

in Gloucester, Massachusetts, The United States

April 02, 1911

Died

January 01, 2000

Website

http://www.jeremyingalls.com/

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, History

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Jeremy Ingalls, born Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls, was an American poet and translator. Of her work, Alison Hawthorne Deming has said: “Ingalls was a metaphysical modernist, a formalist who worked to reconcile the tradition of fixed-form poetry with the imperative for invention. She was a scholar of world mythology and literature, and a woman committed to a poetics of psychic event and social force. From a twentieth-century anxiety about the increasing scale of violence and tyranny, and the loss of shared identity that political upheaval induces...Ingalls saw the mission of poetry as an aesthetic, formal, and moral challenge."

After graduating with both bachelor of arts and master's degrees in literature from Tufts University in Boston, Inga Jeremy Ingalls, born Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls, was an American poet and translator. Of her work, Alison Hawthorne Deming has said: “Ingalls was a metaphysical modernist, a formalist who worked to reconcile the tradition of fixed-form poetry with the imperative for invention. She was a scholar of world mythology and literature, and a woman committed to a poetics of psychic event and social force. From a twentieth-century anxiety about the increasing scale of violence and tyranny, and the loss of shared identity that political upheaval induces...Ingalls saw the mission of poetry as an aesthetic, formal, and moral challenge."

After graduating with both bachelor of arts and master's degrees in literature from Tufts University in Boston, Ingalls went on to do graduate studies in classical Chinese literature and language at the University of Chicago, where she also worked with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder. Ingalls's academic career was primarily at Rockford College in Illinois, where she became Resident Poet and lecturer of English literature and Asian Literature. She later served as Director of the English Department and of the Department of Asian Studies.

In 1941 Ingalls's book of poems, The Metaphysical Sword, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize by Stephen Vincent Benét. A review in the Atlantic Monthly praised her poetry as precise and economical, with a "clear light and cool phrasing" as well as an "edged irony which goes straight to its mark." Ingalls' other poetry collections include Tahl (1945), The Woman From the Island (1958), These Islands Also (1959), This Stubborn Quantum (1983), Summer Liturgy (1985) and her posthumously released Selected Poems (2007). She was awarded fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the Ford, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.

Although Jeremy Ingalls was honored initially for her poetry, her many other talents included musical composition, drama, literary/historical criticism, and translation. Ingalls' translations from China, Korea, and Japan include S. Y. Teng's The Political History of China, 1840-1928 (1958), and The Malice of Empire (1970), both of which are still in print in the U.S and China today. ...more

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	Dragon in Ambush: The Political Ideology of Mao Zedong's Poetry by Jeremy Ingalls, Allen Wittenborn (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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