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Max Michelson(1880-1953) was an American, imagist poet closely associated with Harriet Monroe and Poetry magazine. ==Life and career== Michelson was a childhood immigrant to America from Lithuania and settled in Chicago, working as a furrier.Later, in 1920 he moved to Seattle , 'soon after his arrival there,a mental hospital had to be his refuge'〔Monroe, Harriet, 'A Poet's Life'Macmillan ,New York, 1938〕 and there he was to stay until he died, in obscurity, in 1953.〔Michelson, Peter, Essay 'Tagore to Max' in The Art of Friction ed. Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot University of Texas Press 2008 ISBN 9780292718913〕 Michelson, in addition to becoming an Imagist poet, reviewed poetry for the noted Poetry magazine.〔Poetry Review,Vol. 8 No 5 August 1916〕 Harriet Monroe, the editor thereof said of Michelson 'he was a fine poet, a fine artist, offering deep searching in the beauty and mystery of life, always with a sure touch upon his finely tuned instrument, poetic rhythms of accurately responsive beauty 〔Monroe, Harriet Review of 'Others for 1919-An Anthology of New Verse' by Alfred Kreymborg,Poetry, Vol 17, no 3, December 1920〕 , ' a furrier whose equisite sensibility transcended the demands of his trade, and finding Michelson's delicate talent, quiet presence, helpful in the office routine and his judgement of new poets, suggestive'. 〔Monroe, Harriet, 'A Poets's Life ' ,Macmillan, New York, 1938 〕.Monroe, later,included five of Michelson's early poems in her 1918 'New Poetry - an anthology'〔'The New Poetry - an Anthology' ed.Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson, Macmillan New York, 1918〕 and published in Poetry his ' The Tired Woman' - a ' present day myth play. 〔Monroe, Harriet, 'A Poet's Life, Macmillan, New York, 1938〕Michelson's Imagist poem 'Midnight' was included in William Pratt's acclaimed anthology of Imagist poetry, ' The Imagist Poem - Modern Poetry in Miniature, 1963.〔Pratt, William ed.'Modern Poetry' UNO Press, New Orleans ,ISBN 9780292718913〕 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「Max Michelson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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