Reuel Denney (April 13, 1913 in
New York City
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– May 1, 1995 in
Honolulu
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) was an American poet and academic.
Life
Denney grew up in
Buffalo, New York
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. He graduated from
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...
in 1932. He taught at the
University of Chicago
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. He was professor emeritus, at
University of Hawaii
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, retiring in 1977.
His papers are at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.
The Papers of Reuel Denney in the Dartmouth College Library
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Awards
* 1939 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
* ''The Connecticut River, and other poems'', Yale University Press, (1939), (reprint 1971), winner of the Yale Younger Series Award.
* ''The Lonely Crowd
''The Lonely Crowd'' is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with '' White Collar: The American Middle Classes'' (1951), written by Riesman's friend and colleague, C. Wright Mills, it is considere ...
'', Reuel Denney, David Riesman
David Riesman (September 22, 1909 – May 10, 2002) was an American sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society.
Career
Born to a wealthy German Jewish family, he attended Harvard College, where he graduated in 1931 ...
, Nathan Glazer
Nathan Glazer (February 25, 1923 – January 19, 2019) was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University. He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal ''The Pu ...
, (1950), (reprint 2001), a classic of American sociology.
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* ''In Praise of Adam'' (1965)
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Anthologies
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* ''A new anthology of modern poetry'', Selden Rodman (ed), The Modern Library, 1946
References
1913 births
1995 deaths
Dartmouth College alumni
Writers from New York City
Yale Younger Poets winners
20th-century American poets
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