Edward Doro (February 3, 1909 – 1987) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

Life

Doro was born in

Dickinson, North Dakota Dickinson is a city in and the county seat of Stark County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 25,679 at the 2020 census. Dickinson is home to the Ukrainian Cultural Institute, which has a museum and holds events year round for the ...

, the son of a Californian banker. He studied at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

(B.A., 1929) and the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

(M.A., 1931). Doro later moved to

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Awards

* 1936

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 1939

Russell Loines Award for Poetry Russell Loines Award for Poetry was a poetry award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature ...

, by

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Works

* ''Alms for oblivion'', Casa editorial Franco-ibero-americana, 1932 * ''The Boar and Shibboleth: with other poems'', woods engravings

Paul Landacre Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) was an active participant in the cultural flowering of interwar Los Angeles, described by Jake Zeitlin as a "small Renaissance, Southern California styl ...

, Alfred A. Knopf, 1933 * ''Mr. Zenith: & other poems'', The Bookman press, 1942 * ''Shiloh: fragments on a famous theme'', G. P. Putnam, 1936 * ''Mr. Zenith & Other Poems'', Bookman Press, 1942 * ''Parisian interlude'', W. Doan, 1960 * ''The furtherance'', Franconia College Press, 1966

Anthologies

* ''Twentieth-century American poetry'', Editor Conrad Aiken, Modern Library, 1963

Reviews

THIS book of poems, beautifully printed and illustrated with some fine wood engravings, is, in good part, a reprint of Mr. Doro's poems first published by the poet himself about two years ago in Paris. But to this first American edition several poems have been added and they make all the difference."Edward Doro's Fantastic Poetry"
''The New York Times'', Eda Lou Walton. December 17, 1933

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Doro, Edward Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Dickinson, North Dakota University of Southern California alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni 1909 births 1987 deaths 20th-century American poets