Lindley Williams Hubbell (June 3, 1901 – October 2, 1994) was an American poet and translator.

Biography

Hubbell was born in

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, to an old

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family, and showed interest in literature from an early age. He attended Hartford High School for two years and received lessons from private tutors, but didn't receive any collegiate education. In 1926 he began working as a reference librarian at the

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, and one year later was awarded the Yale Younger Poets award.

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published his first book of poetry, ''Dark Pavilion'', and his work began to appear in magazines such as ''

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''. He was an early champion of

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, and the two of them maintained a lengthy friendship, the correspondence of which is held at

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. In 1946 he left his position at the NYPL to head the literature department at the Randall School in Hartford, a position he held until 1953, when he took a job cataloging books at

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, which in turn led to a teaching position at

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. He became a naturalized Japanese citizen that year and changed his name to Hayashi Shuseki. He retired from teaching in 1970 and remained in Japan for the rest of his life. He died in Kyoto in 1994.

Works

Poetry

*''Dark Pavilion''. Yale University Press, 1927. (Yale Series of Younger Poets) *''The Tracing of a Portal''. Yale University Press, 1931. *''Winter-Burning''.

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, 1938. *''The Ninth Continent''.

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, 1947. (pamphlet) *''Long Island Triptych & Other Poems''. Alan Swallow, 1947. *''The Birth of the Diatom: A Christmas Play''. Banyan Press, 1949. (pamphlet) *''Seventy Poems''. Alan Swallow, 1965. *''Atlantic Press''. The Ikuta Press, 1971. *''Autobiography''. The Ikuta Press, 1971. *''Double Triptych''. The Ikuta Press, 1974. *''Pasiphae''. The Ikuta Press, 1976. *''Trilogy''. The Ikuta Press, 1977. *''Climbing to Monfumo''. The Ikuta Press, 1977. *''Walking through Numba''. The Ikuta Press, 1978. *''Air Poem''. The Yamashina Press, 1979. *''Czerny''. The Ikuta Press, 1982. *''The First Architect''. The Ikuta Press, 1982.

Prose

*''Lectures on

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''. Nan'un-do, 1958. *''Shakespeare and Classic Drama''. Nan'un-do, 1962. *''A Note on the Shakespeare Apocrypha''. The Yamashina Press, 1966. *''Miscellany''. Nan'un-do, 1972. *''A Second Miscellany''. The Ikuta Press, 1972. * ''The Ten Avatars of Vishnu''. The Ikuta Press, 1978. *''The English Lyric in the 17th Century''. The Ikuta Press, 1981. *''Studies in English Literature''. Yamaguchi Shoten, 1982.

Translations

*''Aki nop Hi''. Nan'un-do, 1962. *''Translations''. The Ikuta Press, 1983. *''

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'', from

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. The Ikuta Press, 1983. *'' The Suppliants'', from

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. The Ikuta Press, 1986.

References

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