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Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024) Poetry scholar, critic. Marjorie Perloff was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Full Name

Marjorie Perloff

Locations

BronxNew York

Author's Timeline


1931

Birth

Marjorie Perloff was born Gabriele Schuller Mintz in Vienna, Austria, on September 28, 1931.

1938

Other Life Event

Bronx County: Ms. Perloff and her family fled Austria and moved to New York, settling in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, in 1938.

1940s

Other Life Event

Bronx County: Ms. Perloff attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, New York, in the 1940s.

1953

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Perloff graduated with a degree in English from Barnard College in Manhattan, New York, in 1953.

1970

Literary Work

Rhyme and Meaning in the Poetry of Yeats
Mouton
902790510X / 978-9027905109
Nonfiction.

1977

Literary Work

Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters
The University of Chicago Press
0226660591 / 978-0226660592
Nonfiction.

1987

Literary Work

The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture
University of Chicago Press
0226657310 / 978-0226657318
Nonfiction.

1992

Literary Work

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
University of Chicago Press
0226657337 / 978-0226657332
Nonfiction.

1996

Literary Work

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
University of Chicago Press
0226660583 / 978-0226660585
Nonfiction.

2004

Literary Work

The Vienna Paradox
New Directions
0811215717 / 978-0811215718
Memoir.

2010

Literary Work

Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
University of Chicago Press
0226660613 / 978-0226660615
Nonfiction.

2016

Literary Work

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
University of Chicago Press
022605442X / 978-0226054421
Nonfiction.

2021

Literary Work

Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics
University of Chicago Press
022671263X / 978-0226712635
Nonfiction.

2024

Death

Marjorie Perloff died at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on March 24, 2024.

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