Enslin, Theodore

Theodore Enslin was born in Chester, PA on March 25, 1925. He studied musical composition privately with Nadia Boulanger and Francis Judd Cooke. He has two children, Deirdre and Jonathan Morton, from his first marriage with Mildred Marie Stout in 1945. He divorced in 1961 and married Alison Jane Jose in 1969; they have a son, Jacob Hezekiah. Theodore Enslin has written many books of poetry, including "Forms" (1971-1973), "The Poems" (1970), "Views" (1973), "Synthesis" (1975) "Etudes" (1972) and "To come, to have become" (1966) for which he won the Hart Crane Award in 1969. Other awards include the Niemann Award in 1955 for his weekly newspaper column, "Six miles square." Enslin has also written a play, "Barometric pressure 29.83 and steady" (produced in New York in 1965), and an extended essay on Gustav Mahler published by Black Sparrow Press.

From the description of Theodore Enslin Papers, ca. 1955-1975. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58785150

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