| David Morton | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1886-02-21)February 21, 1886 Elkton, Kentucky |
| Died | June 13, 1957(1957-06-13) (aged 71) |
| Occupation | Journalist, teacher, poet |
| Alma mater | Vanderbilt University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards |
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| College football career | |
| Vanderbilt | |
| Position | Fullback |
David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.
Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909. 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. Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.
His work appeared in Harper's Magazine. He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.
Awards
- Golden Rose Award
- National Arts Club Prize
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.
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References
- Louis Untermeyer (1921). Modern American Poetry. Harcourt, Brace. pp. 346–.
- Vanderbilt University (1915). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vanderbilt University. pp. 53–.
- ^ Robert Francis (1971). The trouble with Francis. Univ of Massachusetts Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-87023-083-7.
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- "WebCite query result". www.webcitation.org. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
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- Hammett, Dashiell (April 1, 2002). Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960. Counterpoint. ISBN 9781582432106.
- Shaw, Albert (January 1, 1920). The American Review of Reviews. Review of Reviews.
Sources
External links
- Works by David Morton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about David Morton at the Internet Archive
- Works by David Morton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
