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Archie Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.〔〔 He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones. Among the topics often addressed by Ammons in his poetry, those of religious and philosophical concern are visited in his works as are many scenes involving nature, almost in a Transcendental fashion. According to one reviewer, Daniel Hoffman, his work "is founded on an implied Emersonian division of experience into Nature and the Soul," adding that it "sometimes consciously echo() familiar lines from Emerson, Whitman and () Dickinson." ==Life== Ammons grew up on a tobacco farm near Whiteville, North Carolina, in the southeastern part of the state. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, stationed on board the U.S.S. ''Gunason'', a battleship escort.〔Gantt, Patricia (1992). "The A.R. Ammons Papers: Bits of Resistance Against Time." ''North Carolina Literary Review 1: 164–165.''〕 After the war, Ammons attended Wake Forest University, majoring in biology. Graduating in 1949, he served as a principal and teacher at Hattaras Elementary School later that year and also married Phyllis Plumbo.〔Wilson, Emily Herring (October 2007). "A Poet in Hattaras Village." ''Our State: Down Home in North Carolina'': 204-208.〕 He received an M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1964, Ammons joined the faculty of Cornell University, eventually becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of English and Poet in Residence. He retired from Cornell in 1998. Ammons had been a longtime resident of the South Jersey communities of Northfield, Ocean City and Millville, when he wrote ''Corsons Inlet'' in 1962.〔Laymon, Rob. ("NOTED POET TO INJECT LIFE INTO WORKS IN O.C. VISIT" ), ''The Press of Atlantic City'', July 23, 1992. Accessed March 29, 2011. "Ammons wrote Corsons Inlet in August of 1962, after having lived in Northfield and Millville for many years."〕〔Miller, Michael. ("Pulitzer Prize poet will read works in O.C." ), ''The Press of Atlantic City'', June 22, 2007. Accessed September 13, 2015. "The late poet A.R. Ammons, formerly of Ocean City, Northfield and Millville, won the prestigious National Book Award."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. R. Ammons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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