After the war, he used his GI Bill money to study at the Sorbonne[4] where he received a Ph.D. for the thesis Un essai sur l'expérience poétique (étude introspective) in 1950.
[6] In 1961, he garnered the blessing of the British poet Kathleen Raine who arranged for his first book, The Many Named Beloved, to be published by Victor Gollancz in London.
[5] Menashe's short, intense, spiritual poems, which canvass existential dilemmas and use implication and wordplay as a way of deepening the linguistic force of his words, gained wide renown in Britain from reviewers such as Donald Davie,[7] who became one of Menashe's most committed backers.
[4] The award was also to include a book to be published by the Library of America, which turned out to be a "Selected Poems" edited by Ricks.
Bloodaxe Books in the UK published the volume (which also contained a DVD film about the poet's life and work) in 2009.