Louise Townsend Nicholl
Louise Townsend Nicholl | |
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Born | 1890 Scotch Plains, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | November 10, 1981 (aged 90–91) Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Smith College |
Genre | Poetry |
Louise Townsend Nicholl (1890, Scotch Plains, New Jersey – November 10, 1981, Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American poet, and editor.[1]
Life
[edit]She graduated from Smith College,[2] where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey.[3]
She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse,[4] Measure (1921–1925),[5][6] and was an editor at E. P. Dutton.[7]
She was a friend of Louise Bogan,[8] and Gore Vidal.[9] She corresponded with George Dillon.[10]
She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1953.[11]
Her work appeared in The New Yorker,[12] Saturday Review,[13] The forum,[14] The Literary Review,[15] The Independent,[16]
She lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and had three sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, Marion Nicholl Rawson and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.[17]
Awards
[edit]- 1954 Academy of American Poets' Fellowship
- 1965 Lowell Mason Palmer Award [18]
- 1971 The Shelley Memorial Award [19]
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Bonner, Amy, ed. (1946). "Refraction". The Poetry Society of America anthology. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-6003-7.
- The Blossom-print. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1938.
- Water and Light. E. P. Dutton & company, inc. 1939.
- Dawn in snow. E.P. Dutton. 1941.
- Life is the Flesh: Poems. E.P. Dutton. 1947.
- The Explicit Flower. Dutton. 1952.
- Collected Poems. Dutton. 1953.
- The world's one clock. St. Martin's Press. 1959.
- The blood that is language. John Day Co. 1967.
Anthologies
[edit]- Esther Morgan McCullough, ed. (1956). As I pass, O Manhattan: an anthology of life in New York. Coley Taylor.
- Robert Penn Warren, ed. (1984). Fifty years of American poetry: anniversary volume for the Academy of American Poets. H.N. Abrams.
Non-fiction
[edit]- Louise Townsend Nicholl (June 17, 1916). "Sophia Smith's House in Order". The Saturday Evening Post Magazine.
References
[edit]- ^ "Louise Townsend Nicholl". Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. 2009.
- ^ The Smith College Monthly. 1912.
- ^ Drake, William (1 July 1987). The first wave: women poets in America, 1915-1945. Macmillan. ISBN 9780025334908.
- ^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1919-01-01). The Writer. The Writer.
- ^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1925-01-01). The Writer. The Writer.
- ^ Pope, Deborah (1999-03-01). A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124666.
- ^ Saul, George Brandon (1967-01-01). Quintet: Essays on Five American Women Poets. Mouton. ISBN 9783111013695.
- ^ Frank, Elizabeth (1986). Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-231-06315-9.
- ^ Kaplan, Fred (1999). Gore Vidal: a biography. Doubleday. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-385-47703-1.
- ^ "George Dillon Papers an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University".
- ^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer (1997). The Pulitzer Prize archive: a history and anthology of award-winning materials in journalism, letters, and arts. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-598-30181-0.
- ^ "Search". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ^ Voto, Bernard Augustine De (1952-01-01). Saturday Review. Saturday Review Associates.
- ^ The Dial. Jansen, McClurg. 1915-01-01.
- ^ The Literary Review. Fairleigh Dickinson University. 1959-01-01.
- ^ Bacon, Leonard; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Storrs, Richard Salter; Beecher, Henry Ward; Leavitt, Joshua; Bowen, Henry Chandler; Tilton, Theodore; Ward, William Hayes; Holt, Hamilton (1923-01-01). The Independent. founders of the Weekly Review.
- ^ "MISS AVIS VAN DYKE MARRIED IN GARDEN; New York Girl Wed to Edwin Clemence at Home of Aunt in Scotch Plains". The New York Times. June 13, 1937.
- ^ Gilroy, Harry (January 22, 1965). "Poetry Society Hails Dante, 700; Young Writers Win Awards Set Up Through Bequest A 'Paradiso' Canto Is Sung -- Stahl Leads Work". The New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2010.
- ^ "Previous Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Louise Townsend Nicholl at the Internet Archive
- Ulrich, Dorothy (October 1, 1939). "Poems by Louise Townsend Nicholl". The New York Times.
- Hillyer, Robert (December 20, 1953). "Poet of Revelation". The New York Times.