Frederick Morgan (poet)

George Frederick Morgan (April 25, 1922 – February 20, 2004) was a poet, the co-founder (1947) and long-time editor (1948–1998) of the literary quarterly '' The Hudson Review'' and an heir to a fortune built on soap.

Morgan attended Princeton University, where he studied under Allen Tate. Morgan also translated poems from the French.

Bibliography

*''The Tarot of Cornelius Agrippa'' (1974) Sagarin Press
*''The Night Sky'' (2002), Story Line Press
*''The One Abiding'' (2003) Story Line Press
*''Poems for Paula'' (1995), Story Line Press
* ''Poems: New and Selected '' (1987), University of Illinois Press
* ''Northbook'' (1982), University of Illinois Press
*''Poems of the Two Worlds'' (1977), University of Illinois Press

about

*Lieberman, Laurence. "William Stafford and Frederick Morgan: The Shocks Of Normality" in ''Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets'' (1995), University of Missouri

Personal life

Morgan was married three times and had six children. His third wife, Paula Dietz, in 1998 succeeded him as editor of '' The Hudson Review''. One of Morgan's sons from an earlier marriage to Constance Canfield was the novelist Seth Morgan.

Further reading

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References

External links

''The Hudson Review''
his longtime publication

1922 births
2004 deaths
20th-century American poets
Princeton University alumni

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