Biography of David Morton
David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909. Morton played on the varsity football team. After a decade of newspaper work, starting at the Louisville Courier-Journal, he became a teacher in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey. Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.His work appeared in Harper's Magazine. He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.Awards
Golden Rose Award
National Arts Club Prize
Works
Poetry
"The Kings Are Passing Deathward", Poetry X
Poems: 1920-1945. A.A. Knopf. 1945.
Poems of a Lifetime. Watermark Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58235-075-2.
Ships in the Harbor. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1921.Nocturnes and Autumnals 1928 publisher Knickerbocker Press
Criticism
David Morton (1929). The renaissance of Irish poetry: 1880-1930. I. Washburn.
Editor
David Morton, ed. (1970). Shorter Modern Poems, 1900-1931. Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-6152-2.
David Morton, ed. (1929). Amherst Undergraduate Verse 1929. The Poetry Society of Amherst College.
Anthologies
Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1921). "Symbols; Old Ships". Modern American poetry. Harcourt, Brace and company. David Morton poet.
References
Sources
The Kentucky Encyclopedia
External links
Works by David Morton at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about David Morton at Internet Archive
Works by David Morton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
