Reuel Denney (April 13, 1913 in

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– May 1, 1995 in

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) was an American poet and academic.

Life

Denney grew up in

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. He graduated from

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in 1932. He taught at the

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. He was professor emeritus, at

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, retiring in 1977. His papers are at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.The Papers of Reuel Denney in the Dartmouth College Library
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Awards

* 1939

Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the Uni ...

Works

* ''The Connecticut River, and other poems'', Yale University Press, (1939), (reprint 1971), winner of the Yale Younger Series Award. * ''

The Lonely Crowd ''The Lonely Crowd'' is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with '' White Collar: The American Middle Classes'' (1951), written by Riesman's friend and colleague, C. Wright Mills, it is consi ...

'', Reuel Denney,

David Riesman David Riesman (September 22, 1909 – May 10, 2002) was an American sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society. Career Born to a wealthy German Jewish family, he attended Harvard College, where he graduated in 1931 ...

Nathan Glazer Nathan Glazer (February 25, 1923 – January 19, 2019) was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University. He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal ''The Pu ...

, (1950), (reprint 2001), a classic of American sociology. * * * ''In Praise of Adam'' (1965) * (reprint) *

Anthologies

* * ''A new anthology of modern poetry'', Selden Rodman (ed), The Modern Library, 1946

References

1913 births 1995 deaths Dartmouth College alumni Writers from New York City Yale Younger Poets winners 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1910s-stub