Weiss, Theodore Russell

▪ 2004

      American poet and editor (b. Dec. 16, 1916, Reading, Pa.—d. April 15, 2003, Princeton, N.J.), was the founding editor in 1943 (with Warren Carrier) of the Quarterly Review of Literature, which published works by poets William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound, as well as those of little-known poets, non-English-language writers, and especially women, including the then-unknown writers Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Joyce Carol Oates. In 1944 Weiss became sole editor, and with his wife, Renée, assisting him with editorial selections, he edited the publication until 2003. Weiss was on the faculty of Princeton University for 20 years and released more than a dozen volumes of his own poetry, mostly narrative verse.

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