Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964
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Name (Latin)
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964
Date of birth
1901-08-10
Date of death
1964-04-28
Occupation
College teachers
Critics
Editors
Poets
Scholars
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- American authors and books. 1640 to the present day, 1972(Zabel, Morton Dauwen (August 10, 1901-April 28. 1964); born in Minnesota Lake, Minn; associate editor, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1928-1936; editor-in-chielf, 1936-1937; professor of English, Loyola University Chicago, 1929-1946; University of Chicago from 1947)
- Poetry Foundation, via WWW, April 27, 2015(Morton Dauwen Zabel, 1901-1964; poet, critic, scholar, and editor Morton Dauwen Zabel was born in Minnesota Lake, Minnesota; he earned his BA from St. Thomas Military Academy, MA from the University of Minnesota, and Ph. D. from the University of Chicago; he was the associate editor of Poetry from 1928-1936 and full editor for one year after; he published many reviews, essays, and critical pieces in journals such as the New Republic, Partisan Review, Nation, and Southern Review; his anthology of literary criticism, Literary Opinion in America, was published in 1937 and was republished in 1951 and 1962; his other books of criticism include Craft and Character: Texts, Method, and Vocation in Modern Fiction (1957) and The Art of Ruth Draper: Her Dramas and Characters (1960); he also wrote introductions for collections by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Charles Dickens, and many others; though he lived and worked in Chicago for much of his life, Zabel spent two years (1943-1945) in Brazil as the first chair of North American literature at the National University of Brazil; he taught at numerous institutions, including Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, and the University of California-Berkeley; from 1947 until his death, he was a professor at the University of Chicago)
- A book of poems for every mood, c1933:t.p. (Morton Dauwen Zabel)