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Dorothy Marie Donnelly (September 7, 1903 – May 2, 1994) was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the US. == Biography == She was born Dorothy Marie Boillotat in Detroit, raised in Grosse Pointe Park, and resided in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After two years at the Detroit Teachers College (now Wayne State University), she began teaching school at seventeen, and published two articles in the "Detroit Journal of Education (Sept. and Nov. 1921), while still in her teens. She enrolled in the University of Michigan and received B.A. and M.A degrees. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was the recipient of a (major) Hopwood award the first year they were offered. In 1931, she married Walter Donnelly, of Battle Creek, an earlier Phi Beta Kappa and M.A. at the University of Michigan, where he had taught in the Dept. of Rhetoric and had recently taken an editorial position with the University of Michigan. They resided at 612 Lawrence, Ann Arbor for the rest of their lives. Dorothy stayed at home writing while raising her three sons, Stephen, Jerome, and Denis. She declined offers to teach for the U. of Michigan Dept. of English, preferring to concentrate on her work at home. Numerous visitors to the Donnelly household, which had become an accidental salon, included poets, professors, and even incipient politicians. A student discussion group on Thomas Aquinas led by Dorothy and Walter, included the future Senator Philip Hart (after whom the Hart Senate Office Building is named). For a time, the mystery writer, Henry Branson, who visited the Donnelly's regularly, lived next door. The Renaissance drama scholar Leo Kirschbaum, another visitor, had an apartment in the adjacent house. When art history professor (later curator of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery) Richard Ettinghausen learned that the Nazis had wiped out his entire family, it was to 612 Lawrence St. that he sought solace. When, during a fierce thunder storm, Walter and Dorothy invited in a stranger, who had taken refuge on their porch, it turned out to be the young poet Robert Hayden. Although Dorothy and Walter were not social gadabouts, they were hosts to many serious thinkers. Raymond Nogar, philosopher/scientist/Dominican priest and author of such books as The Wisdom of Evolution and The Lord of the Absurd, would stay at the house whenever he was able to detour from his lecture tours. (Dorothy wrote an obituary for him in the Herder Book Supplement (1968 ).) Edgar Smothers, S.J., a classical scholar working with the University’s collection of papyri, (see for example his Two Readings in Papyrus Bodmer II) spent one Monday evening a month at the Lawrence St. address. Rosamond Haas, a local poet, (see for example Delay is the Song) was also a regular visitor. There were occasional visits from University museum curators, Paul Slusser (after whom the Jean Paul Slusser art gallery at the U. of Michigan is now named) and Enoch Peterson, the Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archeology. A more frequent visitor was the Donnelly’s good friend, Peter Ruthven, son of the university president Alexander Grant Ruthven. Peter had spent time at the museum’s digs in Egypt and later substantial contributions to the university's collection of artifacts. Other less frequent visitors to 612 Lawrence St. were numerous. After giving a campus reading (May 3, 1950), Dylan Thomas chose to spend his evening there, accompanied by Patrick Boland, a close family friend and poet, who came for stays from Detroit twice a year. The British couple, philosophers Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe, became Donnelly friends during their visiting professorships. Paul Henry, S.J. the Belgian Plotinus scholar, (see for example Plotinus: Volume I, Porphyry on Plotinus, Ennead I), was another sometime guest, who always made a point of detouring from his U.S. speaking trips to stay with Dorothy and Walter. The English poet and critic, John Heath-Stubbs, became a lifelong friend, after he was introduced to the Donnelly household while a visiting professor in the U. of Michigan Dept. of English. He always stayed at 612 Lawrence St. on return visits to Ann Arbor. Dorothy contributed, “Music from a Grand Piano,” an appreciation of Heath-Stubbs in a special issue of Aquarius (London, 1978) in his honor. University of Michigan architecture Professor Joe Lee and his wife Elsie were long-standing visitors and close friends, while psychologist Rudolf Arnheim (best known for Toward the Psychology of Art) and his wife became friends and visitors in later years. In addition, at one time or another, other various poets and writers who paid visits included Joe (X.J.) Kennedy, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Donald Hall, and Anne Stevenson. 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「Dorothy Marie Donnelly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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