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University Of Chicago Poetry Club
University of Chicago Poetry Club, a group formed in 1917 by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the University of Chicago curriculum. Members included Glenway Wescott, George Dillon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Yvor Winters, Llewellyn Jones, Maurice Lesemann, Maurine Smith, Janet Lewis, Gladys Campbell, and Kathleen Foster Campbell. Harriet Monroe, the founder and editor of ''Poetry'', visited the group often. Gladys Campbell and George Dillon were among the editors of the Poetry Club's publication, ''The Forge: A Journal of Verse'', published from 1924 to 1929. References *Campbell, Gladys. "Some Recollections of the Poetry Club at the University of Chicago," ''Poetry'', Volume 105, October 1964, Page 50. External links Gladys Campbell Papersat Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Llewellyn Jones Papersat Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Kathleen Foster Campbell Papersat Yale University Beinecke Rare B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January — Philosopher Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in the magazine '' New Youth (Xin Qingnian)'' titled "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasizes eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points). * February — ''The Little Review'' moves from Chicago to New York City with the help of Ezra Pound (its foreign editor from May). * May — W. B. Yeats acquires Thoor Ballylee in Ireland. * May 2 — English poet Marian Allen completes the poem "To A. T. G." a few days after hearing of the death in action of her fiancé Arthur Greg, the first of several to his memory. * May–June — T. S. Eliot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the best universities in the world and it is among the most selective in the United States. The university is composed of College of the University of Chicago, an undergraduate college and five graduate research divisions, which contain all of the university's graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees. Chicago has eight professional schools: the University of Chicago Law School, Law School, the Booth School of Business, the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, the Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago Divinity School, Divinity School, the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, and the Pritzker School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenway Wescott
Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987) was an American poet, novelist and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay.Eric Haralson, ''Henry James and Queer Modernity'', Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 175 His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death. Early life Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1901. His younger brother, Lloyd Wescott, was born in Wisconsin in 1907. He studied at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of a literary circle including Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Yvor Winters, and Janet Lewis, but left after contracting Spanish flu. Wescott travelled to Santa Fe to recover from Spanish flu, where he wrote his first published poetry collection, titled ''The Bitterns''. Although, he began his writing career as a poet, he is best known for his short stories and novels, notably ''The Grandmoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dillon (poet)
__NOTOC__ George Hill Dillon (November 12, 1906 – May 9, 1968) was an American editor and poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1932 for ''The Flowering Stone''. Dillon was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English. He was the editor for ''Poetry magazine'' from 1937 to 1949, during which time he also served in WWII as a member of the Signal Corps. Viewing, from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the German Army being driven from Paris, he signaled, in Morse, "Paris is Free". Though included in several contemporary anthologies, Dillon's works are largely out of print. Today he is perhaps best known as one of the many lovers of Edna St. Vincent Millay, whom he met in 1928 at The University of Chicago where she was giving a reading. Dillon was the inspiration for Millay's epic 52-sonnet sequence ''Fatal Interview'' and they later collaborated on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Elizabeth Madox Roberts (October 30, 1881 – March 13, 1941) was a Kentucky novelist and poet, primarily known for her novels and stories set in central Kentucky's Washington County, including ''The Time of Man'' (1926), "My Heart and My Flesh," ''The Great Meadow'' (1930) and ''A Buried Treasure'' (1931). All of her writings are characterized by her distinct, rhythmic prose. Robert Penn Warren called "The Time of Man" a classic; the eminent Southern critic and ''Southern Review'' editor Lewis P. Simpson counted her among the half dozen major Southern renascence writers. Three book-length studies of her work, three collections of critical articles, a major conference on her 100th birthday, a collection of her unpublished poems, and a flourishing Roberts Society that generates 20-odd papers at its annual April conferences have yet to revive wide interest in her work. Life Born in Perryville, Kentucky, on October 30, 1881, Roberts grew up and spent most of her adult life in nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. Life Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there until 1919 except for brief stays in Seattle and in Pasadena, where his grandparents lived. He attended the University of Chicago for four-quarters in 1917–18, where he was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and his future wife Janet Lewis. In the winter of 1918–19 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and underwent treatment for two years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During his recuperation he wrote and published some of his early poems. On his release from the sanitarium he taught in high schools in nearby mining towns. In 1923 Winters published one of his first critical essays, "Notes on the Mechanics of the Poetic Image," in the expatriate literary journal ''Secession''. That same year he enrolled at the University of Colorado, where he achieved his BA and MA degrees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llewellyn Jones
Llewellyn Jones (13 July 1884–1 July 1961) was a United States writer and literary editor. He was one of the signatories to Humanist Manifesto I. Jones was literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post from 1914 to 1932 and then worked as an editor for Willett, Clark, and Company. He moved to Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ... in 1937, when he became president of the Greater Boston American–Scandinavian Forum. Works * ''First Impressions; Essays on Poetry, Criticism, and Prosody'' (1925) * ''How to Criticize Books'' (1928) * ''How to Read Books'' (1930) External links Llewellyn Jones Papersat Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library References 1884 births 1961 deaths American male poets American literary editors 20th-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Lesemann
Maurice Lesemann (28 November 1899 – 2 October 1981) was a United States poet. Lesemann was born in Chicago, the son of a Methodist clergyman. He studied at the University of Chicago where he served as president of the Poetry Club, several of whose members — including Lesemann — were published in early numbers of the magazine ''Poetry''. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, he travelled to New Mexico to visit Yvor Winters and Glenway Wescott, and spent some time in teaching in the town of Cerrillos. After graduating he went into advertising. He married in 1926. Prizes * 1920: Poetry Chicago's Young Poet's Prize * Witter Bynner Poetry Prize * 1927: Levinson Prize Levinson is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname meaning "son of Levi". Notable people with the surname include: * André Levinson (1887–1933), French dance journalist * Arik Levinson, American economist * Arthur D. Levinson (born 1950), American busine ... 1899 births 1981 deaths American ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurine Smith
Maurine may refer to: Places: *Maurine (stream), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany *Maurine, Missouri, a community in the United States *Maurine, South Dakota, a community in the United States People: *Maurine (footballer) (born 1986), a Brazilian footballer *Maurine Karagianis (born 1950), Canadian politician *Maurine Brown Neuberger (1907–2000), US senator from Oregon *Maurine Dallas Watkins (1896–1969), American journalist and playwright *Maurine Whipple (1903–1992), American writer See also *Maurines, a commune in the Cantal department of France *Maureen Maureen is a female given name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of '' Máire'' (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam. The name has sometimes been regarded as corresponding to the male given name Maurice. So ... {{disambig, geo, given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Lewis
Janet Loxley Lewis (August 17, 1899 – December 1, 1998) was an American novelist, poet, and librettist. Biography Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters. She was an active member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. She taught at both Stanford University in California, and the University of California at Berkeley. She wrote '' The Wife of Martin Guerre'' (1941) which is the tale of one man's deception and another's cowardice. Her first novel was ''The Invasion: A Narrative of Events Concerning the Johnston Family of St. Mary's'' (1932). Other prose works include ''The Trial of Soren Qvist'' (1947), ''The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron'' (1959), and the volume of short fiction, ''Good-bye, Son, and Other Stories'' (1946).Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources—America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Campbell
Gladys Campbell (February 1892 – July 1, 1992) was a poet and teacher in Chicago. As a student she was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. Life Campbell attended the University of Chicago to study poetry and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1920 and a Master of Arts in 1943. Campbell was one of the early members of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. Campbell was close friends with George Dillon, Charles Bell, and Glenway Wescott.Gladys Campbell Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Campbell wrote poetry throughout her life and her poems appeared frequently in ''Poetry'' magazine, ''The Forge'', '' The Dial
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Kathleen Foster Campbell
Kathleen Foster Campbell (born 12 November 1897 in Larne, Ireland – 10 April 1991 in Fresno, California) was an Irish-born American poet. She was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. Life Kathleen Foster was born in Larne, Ireland, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago to study poetry. Through the newly formed Poetry Club, Campbell became a close friend of Janet Lewis, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Gladys Campbell. She married Gladys' brother, Donald Campbell, an attorney. The couple lived in Chicago until Donald Campbell's retirement, when they moved to Carmel, California. Published work * 1940: ''Poetry'': 'Not Fragments', 'Wake' * 1941: ''Poetry'': Reviews 'The Gap of Brightness' by F. R. Higgins Frederick Robert Higgins (24 April 1896 – 6 January 1941) was an Irish poet and theatre director. Early years Higgins was born on the west coast of Ireland in Foxford, which is loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
