René Taupin

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René Taupin (1905 - 13 February 1981) was a French translator, critic, and academic. In 1954 he was appointed chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College. He had moved to the United States in the 1920s. He corresponded with Ezra Pound, and was an associate of Louis Zukofsky with whom he planned to publish a periodical La France en liberté, however these plans never came to fruition.[1] After his retirement he returned to Paris where he spent the last 13 years of his life.

Indiana University's Lilly Library Manuscript Collections has copies of letters to Taupin witten by the poet Louis Zukofsky. Taupin was living in New York during that time.[2]

Paul Mariani said about Taupin that he was "a bitter pill for us to swallow sometimes", because he made Americans "look a rather negative lot".[3]

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Books
  • The Influence of French Symbolism on Modern American Poetry (1986), Ams Studies in Modern Literature, ISBN 0-404-61579-1
  • The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire/Le Style Apollinaire: Le Style Apollinaire (1934), with Louis Zukofsky, Sasha Watson, Jean Daive and Serge Gavronsky, Univ Pr of New England, ISBN 0-819-56620-9; (Hardcover ISBN 0-819-56619-5)
Essays
  • Essais Indifferents Pour Une Esthetique, with by Bettina L. Knapp, and Hannah K. Charney, Peter Lang Pub Inc, ISBN 0-820-40414-4

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams & Louis Zukofsky, ISBN 0-819-56490-7, page 273
  2. ^ The Zukofsky mss., 1928-1933. The Lilly Library at Indiana University at Bloomington.
  3. ^ Mariani, Paul L. (1990). William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. W. W. Norton & Company, p.333. ISBN 0-393-30672-0. 

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