Career
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Has taught at Kenyon College, State University of Iowa, New York University, Smith College, and Washington University; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, associate professor of English, 1962-67; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, John H. Deane Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric, 1967-85; Georgetown University, Washington, DC, university professor, 1985-93. Visiting professor, Harvard University, 1973, and Yale University, 1977. Consultant in poetry to Library of Congress, 1982-84; trustee, American Academy, Rome, beginning 1983; Andrew Mellon lecturer in the fine arts, National Gallery of Art, 1992; Rockefeller Foundation resident, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, 1993. Military service: U.S. Army, three years; served in Europe and Japan; temporary duty with Counter-Intelligence Corps.
