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 edit
- Golden Rose Award
- National Arts Club Prize[7]
Works edit
Poetry edit
- "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 edit
- David Morton (1929). The renaissance of Irish poetry: 1880-1930. I. Washburn.
Editor edit
- 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 edit
- Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1921). "Symbols; Old Ships". Modern American poetry. Harcourt, Brace and company.
David Morton poet.
References edit
- ^ Louis Untermeyer (1921). Modern American Poetry. Harcourt, Brace. pp. 346–.
- ^ Vanderbilt University (1915). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vanderbilt University. pp. 53–.
- ^ a b Robert Francis (1971). The trouble with Francis. Univ of Massachusetts Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-87023-083-7.
David Morton poet.
- ^ "WebCite query result". www.webcitation.org. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ "David Morton | Harper's Magazine". Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ^ Hammett, Dashiell (2002-04-01). Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960. Counterpoint. ISBN 9781582432106.
- ^ Shaw, Albert (1920-01-01). The American Review of Reviews. Review of Reviews.
Sources edit
External links edit
- Works by David Morton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about David Morton at Internet Archive
- Works by David Morton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
