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Timothy Steele is an American poet. Steele generally writes in meter and rhyme, and his early poems, which began appearing in the 1970s in such magazines as ''Poetry, The Southern Review'', and X. J. Kennedy's ''Counter/Measures'', are said to have anticipated and contributed to the revival of traditional verse associated with the New Formalism.〔Brogan, T. V. F. “New Formalism.” ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', eds. Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993, p. 835.〕 He, however, has objected to being called a New Formalist, saying that he doesn't claim to be doing anything technically novel and that Formalism "suggests, among other things, an interest in style rather than substance, whereas I believe that the two are mutually vital in any successful poem." 〔http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/timothy-steele. Retrieved 22 February 2014.〕 Notwithstanding his reservations about the term, Steele's poetry is more strictly "formal" than the work of most New Formalists in that he rarely uses inexact rhymes or metrical substitutions, and is sparing in his use of enjambment.〔Leithauser, Brad. "The Strictest Line." ''TLS'', February 19, 1988, p. 180.〕 In addition to four collections of poems, he is the author of two books on prosody: ''Missing Measures'', a study of the literary and historical background of modern free verse; and ''All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing'', an introduction to English versification. Steele was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Poetry Conference, and received its Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award in 2004. ==Education== Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1948, Steele attended the city's public schools. At an early age, he became interested in poetry, including that of Robert Frost, who was appointed the state's Poet Laureate in 1961, and William Shakespeare, several of whose plays were staged each summer at a Shakespeare festival at the University of Vermont in Burlington.〔“Timothy Steele in Conversation with Cynthia Haven.” ''Three Poets in Conversation: Dick Davis, Rachel Hadas, Timothy Steele.'' London: Between the Lines, 2006, pp. 103-06.〕 Steele received his baccalaureate degree in English (1970) from Stanford University and a master's (1972) and doctorate (1977) in English and American Literature from Brandeis University, where he studied with the well-known poet and Renaissance scholar J. V. Cunningham, a collected edition of whose poems Steele would later edit.〔Steele, Timothy. “The Forms of Poetry.” ''Brandeis Review'' (Summer 1992), pp. 29-30.〕 Timothy Steele is married to Victoria Steele, a librarian who is known for her work as the former Head of UCLA's Special Collections, the New York Public Library, and her affiliation with UCLA's William Andrews Memorial Clark Library where she was recently appointed interim head librarian as of 2014.〔Sullivan. Victoria Steele to Serve as Interim Head Librarian at Clark Library. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/victoria-steele-to-serve-as-interim-head-librarian-at-clark-library. 14 July 2014〕 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「Timothy Steele」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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