Louise Glück

E125551

Louise Glück was an American poet and essayist renowned for her austere, lyrical explorations of loss, family, and the self, and was widely celebrated as one of the most important contemporary voices in American poetry.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Louise Glück canonical 16
Louise Elisabeth Glück 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
Pulitzer Prize winner
essayist
person
poet
professor
awardReceived Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
National Book Award for Poetry
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Nobel Prize in Literature
United States Poet Laureate
surface form: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Wallace Stevens Award
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1943-04-22
dateOfDeath 2023-10-13
educatedAt Columbia University
Sarah Lawrence College
employer Boston University
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Williams College
Yale University
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
familyName Glück
fieldOfWork literary criticism
poetry
fullName Louise Glück self-linksurface differs
surface form: Louise Elisabeth Glück
gender female
genre essay
lyric poetry
givenName Louise
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainTheme family
loss
self
movement contemporary American poetry
nationality American
notableWork Mount Ararat
surface form: Ararat

Averno
Descending Figure
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Firstborn
Meadowlands
Proofs and Theories
The Seven Ages
The Triumph of Achilles
The Wild Iris
Vita nuova
surface form: Vita Nova
occupation essayist
poet
professor
placeOfBirth New York City
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts
positionHeld United States Poet Laureate
surface form: Poet Laureate of the United States
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts
writingStyle austere
lyrical

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Confessional poetry hasKeyFigure Louise Glück
Symphony No. 5 basedOnTextBy Louise Glück
subject surface form: Symphony No. 5 (Harbison)
Elizabeth Bishop influenced Louise Glück
Louise Glück fullName Louise Glück self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Louise Elisabeth Glück
The Yale Younger Poets Series hasEditor Louise Glück
subject surface form: Yale Younger Poets Series
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize hasRecipient Louise Glück
Robert Frost Medal notableRecipient Louise Glück
American poetry hasNotableFigure Louise Glück