John Evans

John Evans 1814-97, American founder of educational institutions, b. Waynesville, Ohio, grad. Lynn Medical College, Cincinnati, 1838. He practiced medicine in Indiana and was the first superintendent (1845) of the state hospital for the insane, which he had helped establish. In 1848 he went to Chicago as professor of obstetrics at Rush Medical School. He invested in real estate and helped found Northwestern Univ. in Evanston, Ill., a city named for him. Evans served (1862-65) as governor of Colorado Territory and later worked for the promotion of what is now the Univ. of Denver.

Bibliography: See biography by H. E. Kelsey, Jr. (1969).

Hecht, Anthony [Evan] (1923–2004), New York‐born poet, whose infrequent volumes are carefully crafted, formal in manner but moving in their treatment of personal and philosophic subject matter. A Summoning of Stones (1954) was in part reprinted with new poems in The Hard Hours (1967, Pulitzer Prize). Other collections include The Seven Deadly Sins (1958), A Bestiary (1960), Millions of Strange Shadows (1977), The Venetian Vespers (1979), and The Transparent Man (1989). Collected Earlier Poems was also published in 1989. His skill in metrics and his wit are seen in Jiggery‐Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1967), written and edited with John Hollander. He also translated Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (1973) with Helen Bacon. Obbligati (1986) collects ten of his essays on poets from Shakespeare to his own contemporaries. In 1981 he was awarded a Bollingen Prize.