Jeremy Ingalls

Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls (April 2, 1911 - March 16, 2000) was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature.

In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, which was published in 1945 by Alfred Knopf.

Life Ingalls grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Tufts College and studied Chinese at the University of Chicago. From 1948 to 1960, she taught at Rockford College as Resident Poet and Professor of Asian Studies and served as head of the English Department. She then taught at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio.

She had a foster son, Yong-ho Ch'oe.

Her papers are archived at several institutions: the University of Chicago, and the University of Arizona.

Awards 1941: Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for The Metaphysical Sword 1943: Guggenheim Fellowship 1950/1951: Shelley Memorial Award American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship Ford Foundation Fellowship Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Works

Poetry

2nd edition AMS Press, 1971

Non-fiction

Essays

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