The Modernist Impulse and a Contemporary Opus

Frederic Will has published fifty-six books, ranging from cultural history, philosophy, poetry, translation, and fiction to travel narrative, and is currently completing a new sequence of six interrelated volumes on the character of everyday existence. He has received six Fulbright Grants from the United States Government and multi-year support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his journal of world poetry in translation, Micromegas, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bollingen Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was a founding editor, with William Arrowsmith, Donald Carne-Ross, and John Sullivan, of the journal of Classical culture, Arion. His poetry has received praise in the UK; the TLS has described his poetic work as “accomplished and insightful,” and his criticism as “brilliant.” His lifetime literary papers are collected in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, USA.