Daryl Hine

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| birth_name = William Daryl Hine

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1936|2|24}}

| birth_place = Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

| death_date ={{death date and age|2012|8|20|1936|2|24}}

| death_place = Evanston, Illinois, United States

| occupation = Poet {{*}} Translator

| language = English

| nationality = Canadian

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William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator. A MacArthur Fellow for the class of 1986, Hine was the editor of Poetry from 1968 to 1978. He graduated from McGill University in 1958 and then studied in Europe, as a Canada Council scholar. He earned a PhD. in comparative literature at the University of Chicago (UChicago) in 1967. During his career, Hine taught at UChicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University.

Life

Hine was born in Burnaby in 1936 and grew up in New Westminster, British Columbia. He was the adopted son of Robert Fraser and Elsie James Hine. He attended McGill University in Montreal 1954–58. His first chapbook, The Carnal and the Crane, was published as part of Louis Dudek's McGill Poetry Series in 1957.{{cite web |url=http://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6546 |title=Steve Smith |date=2006 |website=LeonardCohenForum |access-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113154600/http://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6546 |archive-date=January 13, 2010}}

Hine then went to Europe on a Canada Council scholarship, where he lived for the next three years. He moved to New York in 1962 and to Chicago in 1963, taking a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3167 |title=Daryl Hine |publisher=Poetry Foundation |date= |access-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809012507/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3167 |archive-date=August 9, 2010}} in 1967. He taught there and at Northwestern University and at University of Illinois (Chicago campus) during the following decades, while he served as an editor. Editor of Poetry magazine, from 1968 to 1978, his correspondence from that time is held at Indiana University.{{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/poetry.html |title=Poetry mss |publisher=Indiana.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-08-26}} He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1986.

Hine's work appeared in the New York Review of Books,{{cite web |url=http://www.nybooks.com/authors/6703 |title=Daryl Hine | The New York Review of Books |publisher=Nybooks.com |date=1966-04-28 |accessdate=2012-08-26}} Harper's,{{cite web |url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/1970/09/0021120 |title=Histrionic landscape—By Daryl Hine (Harper's Magazine) |publisher=Harpers.org |date= |accessdate=2012-08-26}} The New Yorker,{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Daryl%20Hine%22 |title=Daryl Hine Search |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080717170001/http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Daryl%20Hine%22 |archive-date=July 17, 2008}} The Tamarack Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookinfo.phtml?nr=234486439&l=en&searchform= |title=The Tamarack Review |publisher=Antiqbook.com |accessdate=2012-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225114950/http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookinfo.phtml?nr=234486439&l=en&searchform= |archive-date=February 25, 2012 }} The Paris Review.{{cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/121 |title=Writers, Quotes, Interviews, Artist, Biography |publisher=Paris Review |accessdate=2012-08-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009060013/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/121 |archivedate=2007-10-09 }}

The poet first came out as gay in his 1975 work In & Out, which was initially available only in a privately printed version in limited circulation. The work did not gain general publication until 1989.{{cite web |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/hine_d.html |title=Hine, Daryl (b.1936) |website=GLBTQ |access-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124045658/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/hine_d.html |archive-date=November 24, 2009}}

Following the death of his partner of more than 30 years, the philosopher Samuel Todes, Hine lived in semi-retirement in Evanston, Illinois. Hine died of complications of a blood disorder on August 20, 2012, at the age of 76.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/arts/daryl-hine-poet-editor-and-translator-dies-at-76.html|title=Daryl Hine, Poet, Editor and Translator, Dies at 76 |last=Kaufman |work=The New York Times |date=August 24, 2012 |access-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830203707/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/arts/daryl-hine-poet-editor-and-translator-dies-at-76.html |archive-date=August 30, 2012}}

Awards

2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award{{Cite book |url=https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/harold-morton-landon-translation-award |title=Harold Morton Landon Translation Award |date=2017-09-22 |publisher=Academy of American Poets |language=en}}
1986 MacArthur Foundation Fellow{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/277/|title=Daryl Hine|work=macfound.org}}
1980 Guggenheim Fellowship{{cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: Daryl Hine|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/daryl-hine/|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|accessdate=22 September 2017}}

Works

{{cite book| title=The Prince of Darkness & Co.| publisher=Abelard-Schuman|year=1961 }} (novel)
{{cite book| title=Polish Subtitles: Impressions from a Journey | url=https://archive.org/details/polishsubtitlesi00hine | url-access=registration | publisher=Abelard-Schuman| year=1962 }} (nonfiction)
{{cite book| editor=Daryl Hine, Joseph Parisi| title=The "Poetry" Anthology, 1912-1977| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company| year=1978| isbn=978-0-395-26548-2| url=https://archive.org/details/poetryanthology00hine}}

=Poetry=

{{cite book| title=Five Poems| publisher=Emblem Books| year=1955 }}
{{cite book| title=The Carnal and the Crane| publisher=Contact Press| year=1957 }}
{{cite book| title=The Devil's Picture Book| publisher=Abelard| year=1960 }}
{{cite book| title=Heroics: Five Poems| publisher=Grosswiller| place=France| year=1961 }}
{{cite book| title=The Wooden Horse| url=https://archive.org/details/woodenhorsepoems0000hine| url-access=registration| publisher=Atheneum| year=1965 }}
{{cite book| title=Minutes| publisher=Atheneum| year=1968 }}
{{cite book| title=Resident Alien| publisher=Atheneum| year=1975| isbn=978-0-689-10651-4| url=https://archive.org/details/residentalienpoe00hine}}
{{cite book| title=In and Out| publisher=Knopf| year=1989}} (privately printed, 1975)
{{cite book| title=Daylight Saving| publisher=Atheneum| year=1978 }}
{{cite book | title=Selected Poems | publisher=Oxford University Press | place=Toronto | year=1980 | isbn=978-0-689-11118-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/selectedpoems00hine }} {Atheneum, 1981}
{{cite book | title=Arrondissements| publisher= The Porcupine's Quill | place=Erin | year=1989 | isbn=0-88984-130-6 }}
{{cite book| title=Academic Festival Overtures| publisher=Atheneum| year=1985| isbn=978-0-689-11573-8| url=https://archive.org/details/academicfestival00hine}}
{{cite book| title=Postscripts| publisher=Random House| year=1990| isbn=978-0-394-58836-0 }} (Knopf (New York, NY), 1991)
{{cite book| title=Recollected Poems: 1951-2004| url=https://archive.org/details/recollectedpoems0000hine| url-access=registration| publisher=Fitzhenry & Whiteside| year=2007| isbn=978-1-55455-021-0 }}
{{cite book| title=&: A Serial Poem| publisher=Fitzhenry & Whiteside| year=2010| isbn=978-1-55455-164-4 }}
{{cite book| title=A Reliquary and Other Poems| publisher=Fitzhenry & Whiteside| year=2013}}
{{cite book| title=The Essential Daryl Hine| publisher=The Porcupine's Quill| year=2015}}

=Plays=

A Mutual Flame (radio play), BBC, 1961.
The Death of Seneca, produced in Chicago, 1968.
Alcestis (radio play), BBC, 1972.

=Translations=

{{cite book| title=The Homeric Hymns and the Battle of the Frogs and Mice| url=https://archive.org/details/homerichymnsbatt0000home| url-access=registration| publisher=Atheneum| year=1972 }}
{{cite book| title=Selected Poems| author=Heinrich Heine| publisher=Atheneum| year=1981 }}
(And author of commentary) Theocritus: Idylls and Epigrams, Atheneum, 1982.
{{cite book| title=Ovid's Heroines: A Verse Translation of the Heroides| publisher=Yale University Press| year=1991| isbn=978-0-300-05093-6| url=https://archive.org/details/ovidsheroinesver0000ovid}}
{{cite book| title=Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology| publisher=Princeton University Press| year=2001| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYTw5S4x34wC&q=Daryl+Hine| isbn=978-0-691-08820-4 }}
{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcWPi9GyifYC&q=Daryl+Hine| title=Works of Hesiod and the Homeric hymns| author=Hesiod| others=Translator Daryl Hine| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2005| isbn=978-0-226-32965-9 }}

References

External links

[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/william-daryl-hine-dlb/ "Dictionary of Literary Biography on (William) Daryl Hine"]
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3167 "Daryl Hine" Poetry Foundation]

Category:1936 births

Category:2012 deaths

Category:20th-century Canadian poets

Category:Canadian male poets

Category:21st-century Canadian poets

Category:Formalist poets

Category:University of Chicago faculty

Category:People from New Westminster

Category:People from Burnaby

Category:Writers from British Columbia

Category:Canadian gay writers

Category:MacArthur Fellows