PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — Marjorie Perloff, an influential literary critic of modern and contemporary poetry, died at her Pacific Palisades home Sunday at the age of 92, according to her publisher.
Perloff, who was born in Vienna in 1931 to a prominent Jewish family, fled with her family from Austria seven years later, days after the Nazi annexation of the country, according to the University of Chicago Press.
Her first job was at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she wrote subtitles for movies. After her family — cardiologist Joseph Perloff and their children, Nancy and Carey — moved from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., Perloff earned a master’s in English literature from Catholic University before going on to earn her doctorate at the school, according to the publisher.
After completing her dissertation at W.B. Yeats’ poetry, Perloff taught at Catholic University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern Califonira, where she worked until 1986, according to the publisher.
Perloff spent the latter part of her career at Stanford University and made a name for herself as an advocate of experimental poetry, studying modernists Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and more recent literary movements, according to the New York Times.
Read more about the life and work of Perloff at the University of Chicago Press and the New York Times.
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