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William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Kansas at Lawrence and, in 1954, a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. During the Second World War, Stafford was a conscientious objector and worked in the civilian public service camps-an experience he recorded in the prose memoir ...
21 de jan. de 2024 · Through the haze of what Virginia Woolf called the “wastes and deserts of the soul” exposed by being ill, I remembered a lovely calibration of perspective by the poet and peace activist William Stafford (January 17, 1914–August 28, 1993), found in the posthumous collection The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems ( public library ). YES.
28 de ago. de 2023 · August 28, 2023. Early on the morning of August 28, 1993, the poet William Stafford scratched out the draft of a poem, as he did most mornings, while lying on the couch beneath the living room window at his home in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Later in the day, he sat at the cluttered desk in his writing room, a converted garage, where he typed out a ...
William Stafford was an American poet known for his accessible, contemplative style. He rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, a time marked by significant social and political change. His poems often explored themes of nature, pacifism, and everyday experiences, offering a quiet, introspective counterpoint to the turbulent era in which he lived.
威廉·斯塔福德(William Edgar Stafford, 1914-1993)，美国诗人、和平主义者。早年当过甜菜种植工、电工学徒、炼油工和建筑工，之后在堪萨斯大学和艾奥瓦大学学习，并获得博士学位，二十世纪四十年代末，他开始在俄勒岗州波特兰市的一所大学任教，后来还在亚洲多个国家讲学。
Stafford, though, was a dedicated pacifist and spent the war years working on special camps for conscientious objectors. Following this he completed his master’s degree and went on to publish some sixty five books – a mixture of poetry and prose. He was born William Edgar Stafford in a small town call Hutchinson in Kansas in January 1914.
William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the twentieth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970. Early years Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, the oldest of three children in a highly literate family. During the Depression, his family moved from town ...
