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)
Wikipedia description:
Morton Dauwen Zabel (1901 – April 29, 1964) was an American academic and literary critic. He was the editor-in-chief of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse from 1936 to 1937, taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from 1944 to 1946 and then the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1964. According to the Poetry Foundation, he was "an important force in mid-20th century American letters."
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