David Morton (poet)

David Morton
Born(1886-02-21)February 21, 1886
Elkton, Kentucky
DiedJune 13, 1957(1957-06-13) (aged 71)
OccupationJournalist, teacher, poet
Alma materVanderbilt University
GenrePoetry
Notable awards
College football career
Vanderbilt
PositionFullback

David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.[1]

Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909.[2][3] Morton played on the varsity football team. After a decade of newspaper work, starting at the Louisville Courier-Journal, he became a teacher in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey.[4] Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.[3]

His work appeared in Harper's Magazine.[5] He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.[6]

Awards

Works

Poetry

  • "The Kings Are Passing Deathward", Poetry X
  • Poems: 1920-1945. A.A. Knopf. 1945.
  • Poems of a Lifetime. Watermark Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58235-075-2.
  • Ships in the Harbor. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1921.

Nocturnes and Autumnals 1928 publisher Knickerbocker Press

Criticism

  • David Morton (1929). The renaissance of Irish poetry: 1880-1930. I. Washburn.

Editor

  • David Morton, ed. (1970). Shorter Modern Poems, 1900-1931. Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-6152-2.
  • David Morton, ed. (1929). Amherst Undergraduate Verse 1929. The Poetry Society of Amherst College.

Anthologies

  • Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1921). "Symbols; Old Ships". Modern American poetry. Harcourt, Brace and company. David Morton poet.

References

  1. ^ Louis Untermeyer (1921). Modern American Poetry. Harcourt, Brace. pp. 346–.
  2. ^ Vanderbilt University (1915). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vanderbilt University. pp. 53–.
  3. ^ a b Robert Francis (1971). The trouble with Francis. Univ of Massachusetts Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-87023-083-7. David Morton poet.
  4. ^ "WebCite query result". www.webcitation.org. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. ^ "David Morton | Harper's Magazine". Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  6. ^ Hammett, Dashiell (April 1, 2002). Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960. Counterpoint. ISBN 9781582432106.
  7. ^ Shaw, Albert (January 1, 1920). The American Review of Reviews. Review of Reviews.

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