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.
After Ingalls's death in 2000, Allen Wittenborn, who had met her when he was a graduate student at University of Arizona, later returned to her papers in the archives there. From nearly fifty boxes of her papers he edited the volume Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong (2013), a translation and explication of 20 of Mao's earliest published poems. A reviewer called the volume "an extraordinary work, so full of information that it seems bursting at its roughly 500-page seams. This is not an entirely good thing, because the information provided, while often rich and resonant, is also frequently far-fetched and the assemblage of contents is somewhat unusual."
Her papers are archived at several institutions: the University of Chicago, the University of Delaware, 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
Translations
References
External links "Jeremy Ingalls", Kore Press "Jeremy Ingalls: A Study", Kore Press Blog