{"id":2644,"date":"2014-06-16T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2014-06-04T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T15:29:54","slug":"yales-frederick-iseman-professor-of-poetry-in-white-peoples-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"Yale’s Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry in White People’s Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Since the 18th century, poetry has been a cornerstone of the Yale curriculum.” It makes sense that Yale News<\/a>–writing from the US, in English, for a university whose English dept. has contributed and constituted much of its fame–to highlight poetry in English when discussing poetry’s stony corner at Yale and the inauguration of the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry Fund. Hence:<\/p>\n

The university has been home to many distinguished figures in its teaching and study\u2014among them William Lyon Phelps, known for his charismatic recitations of Tennyson, poet and New Criticism co-founder Robert Penn Warren, and Marie Borroff, a renowned poet, translator, and pioneer in the art of computer poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we live in non-parochial, multinational times, so it also makes sense to highlight that poetry has not only been written in English, and that the endowed professorship can be available to poets and scholars teaching in other languages:<\/p>\n

The Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry Fund will support a recognized living poet or a scholar who teaches poetry or dramatic poetry of any era. Those appointed may teach poetry in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, ancient Greek, or Latin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But notice anything? Just like Robert Penn Warren, or for that matter Harold Bloom, or Paul de Man, or anyone else important to the history of scholarship in poetry in Western languages, Yale has also been home to George Kennedy, Hans Frankel, Hugh Stimson, and Kang-i Sun Chang \u5b6b\u5eb7\u5b9c, not to mention several others in the interim who have broadened and deepened the teaching and research of Chinese poetry–and in the case of\u00a0Cheng Chou-yu \u912d\u6101\u4e88, writing it. But their like will not be included by the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis professorship is very broad \u2014 it can cover the work of Chaucer, Dante, Catullus, and Aeschylus, all the way to Akhmatova, Rilke, Lorca, and Beckett,\u201d Iseman said. \u201cYale has a surpassing commitment to the humanities, and I want to help that any way I can.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So broad, this professorship, that it will not cover the\u00a0Shijing<\/em> \u8a69\u7d93, Du Fu \u675c\u752b, Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1, or Xi Chuan. Or any poets unfortunate enough to write in Arabic, Sanskrit, Javanese, Japanese,or any other language not spoken primarily by Europeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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