Howard Swazey Buck (October 23, 1894 – August 15, 1947) was an American

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and

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Life

He graduated from

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in 1916, where he contributed light verse to campus humor magazine ''

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''. During World War I, he was in the

American Expeditionary Force The American Expeditionary Forces (A. E. F.) was a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I. The A. E. F. was established on July 5, 1917, in France under the command of General John J. Pershing. It fought along ...

Awards

* 1919

Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the Uni ...

Works

* * ''A Study in Smollett: chiefly "Peregrine Pickle"'', Howard Swazey Buck, Philip Hamilton, Yale university press, 1925 * ''Smollett as poet'', Yale University Press, 1927

References

External links

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"The Authenticity of Smollett's ''Ode to Independence''", by Luella F. Norwood, Oxford University Press. 1941
{{DEFAULTSORT:Buck, Howard American male poets United States Army personnel of World War I Yale Younger Poets winners Yale University alumni 1894 births 1947 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers