Babette Deutsch
Babette Deutsch | |
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| Born | September 22, 1895 New York City |
| Died | November 13, 1982(aged 87) |
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| Alma mater | Barnard College |
| Spouse | Avrahm Yarmolinsky |
| Children | Adam Yarmolinsky,Michael Yarmolinsky |
Babette Deutsch(September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an Americanpoet,critic,translator,andnovelist.[1]
Background
[edit]Babette Deutsch was born on September 22, 1895, inNew York City.[1]Her parents were of Michael Deutsch and Melanie Fisher Deutsch. She matriculated from the Ethical Culture School andBarnard College,graduating in 1917 with a B.A. She published poems in magazines such as theNorth American Reviewand theNew Republicwhile she was still a student at Barnard.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]During the 1940s, 1950s and into the 1960s, Deutsch was teaching atColumbia University,where her students included poet/publisherLawrence Ferlinghetti.In 1946, she received an honorary D. Litt. from Columbia University.[citation needed]
Deutsch translatedPushkin'sEugene Onegininto English and also made some of the best English versions of Boris Pasternak's poems. Deutsch's own poems displayed what poetMarianne Moorecalled "her commanding stature as a poet."[2]
Personal life and death
[edit]On April 28, 1921, Deutsch marriedAvrahm Yarmolinsky,chief of the Slavonic Division of The New York Public Library (1918–1955), also a writer and translator.[3]They had two sons,Adamand Michael.[1]
Babette Deutsch died age 87 on November 13, 1982.[1]
Works
[edit]- Poetic collections
- Banners(1919, George H. Doran)
- Honey Out of the Rock(1925, B. Appleton)
- Fire for the Night(1930, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith)
- Epistle to Prometheus(1931, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith)
- One Part Love(1939, Oxford University Press)
- Take Them, Stranger(1944, Henry Holt)
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral(1954, E.P. Dutton)
- Coming of Age: New & selected poems(1959, Indiana University Press)
- Collected Poems, 1919–1962(1963, Indiana University Press)
- The Collected Poems of Babette Deutsch(1969, Doubleday & Co.)
- Novels
- A Brittle Heaven(1926, Greenberg)
- In Such A Night(1927, Martin Secker)
- Mask of Silenus: A Novel About Socrates(1933, Simon and Schuster)
- Rogue's Legacy: A Novel About Francois Villon(1942, Coward-McCann)
- Other works
- Potable Gold: Some Notes on Poetry and This Age(1929, W. W. Norton)
- This Modern Poetry(1936, Faber & Faber)
- Walt Whitman: Builder for America(1941, Julian Messner)
- The Reader's Shakespeare(1946, Julian Messner)
- Poetry Handbook(1957, Funk & Wagnalls)
- Poetry in Our Time(1958, Columbia University Press)
- Poems– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Babette Deutsch, illus. Jacques Hnizkovsky (1967, Thomas Cromwell)
- Translations from Russian
- Modern Russian Poetry: an Anthology– trans. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921, John Lane)
- Contemporary German Poetry: an Anthology– trans. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1923, Harcourt Brace & Co.)
- Eugene Onegin– Alexander Pushkin, illus. Fritz Eichenberg (1939, Heritage Society)
- Heroes of the Kalevala– illus. Fritz Eichenberg (1940, Julian Messner)
- Poems from the Book of Hours– Rainer Maria Rilke (1941, New Directions)
- Selected Poems– Adam Mickiewicz, trans. Babetted Deutsch (alongside W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Rolfe Humphries and Robert Hillyer) (1955, The Noonday Press)
- Two Centuries of Russian Verse– trans. Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1966, Random House)
- Children's books
- Crocodile–Korney Chukovsky,trans. Babette Deutsch (1931, J. Lippincott)
- It's A Secret!– illus. Dorothy Bayley (1941, Harper & Bros.)
- The Welcome– illus. Marc Simont (1942, Harper & Bros.)
- The Steel Flea– Nikolas Leskov, trans. Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, illus. Mstislav Dobufinsky (1943, Harper & Row) – revised 1964, illus. by Janina Domanska
- Tales of Faraway Folk– trans. Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, illus. Irena Lorentowicz (1952, Harper & Row)
- More Tales of Faraway Folk– trans. Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, illus. Janina Domanska (1963, Harper & Row)
- I Often Wish(1966, Funk & Wagnalls)
References
[edit]- ^abcdBabette Deutsch, 87, Novelist, Poet, Translator and Editor,New York Times,November 15, 1982, p. 27
- ^Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms. Funk and Wagnalls, NYC, 1969, notes in the 3rd edition.
- ^"Babette Deutsch",Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors,Gale In Context: Biography,Gale,November 5, 2003, Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000108792
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Babette Deutschat theInternet Archive
- Works by Babette DeutschatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)
- Babette Deutschat FactMonster
- Babette DeutschinThe Columbia Electronic Encyclopediaat GeoCities
- Babette Deutschat The Literary Encyclopaedia (subscription required) – no text as of 2016-07-17
- Penguin Translators A–Gat Penguin First Editions – one book translated by Deutsch as of 2016-07-17
- Babette DeutschatLibrary of Congress,with 60 library catalog records
- 1895 births
- 1982 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- Barnard College alumni
- American women poets
- Russian–English translators
- American literary critics
- American women literary critics
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American poets
- American women anthologists
- 20th-century American translators
- Journalists from New York City
- Novelists from New York (state)
- American women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters