Daniel Hoffman

Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a B.A. (1947), an M.A. (1949), and a Ph.D. (1956). He was a member of the Boar's Head Society there. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.

Hoffman taught at Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He retired from the latter as Felix Schelling Professor of English Emeritus. He was a chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets. From 1988 to 1999, he served as Poet in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he administered the American Poets' Corner.

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