George Bancroft Abbe (January 28, 1911 – March 15, 1989) 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 wri ...

and novelist.

Life

He was graduated from the

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in 1933 and from the

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in 1938. He taught at Mount Holyoke College,

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University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

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University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a public land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the flagship university of the University of Maine System. It is classifie ...

, Springfield College, Central Connecticut State College,

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."George (Bancroft) Abbe", ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009 His work appeared in ''Poetry Magazine'', He had tea with

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...

. A novel manuscript is at

. He corresponded with Nicholas Joost,

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, and

Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét (; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'' (1928), for which he receiv ...

, and wrote a foreword to his book ''Stephen Vincent Benét on writing''.

Awards

* 1956/1957

Shelley Memorial Award The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need, and is ...

* Two grants from State University of New York Research Awards Foundation

Works

Poetry

* * * * *

Novels

* * Dreamer's Clay. New York: Holt, 1940 * * The Winter House: New York: Doubleday, 1957 * One More Puritan: Chicago, Windfall, 1963 * The Non-Conformist. Boston: Branden, 1966 * The Funeral: New York: Horizon, 1967 * Yonderville. Boston: Branden, 1969

Non-Fiction

* The Larks. Bauhan, 1974 * Abbe and Benet, 1976 * The Pigeon Lover. Donning, 1981

Editor

* Hill Wind, YMCA, 1935 * Stephen Vincent Benet on Writing. Stephen Greene, 1964 * ''Poetry in the Round: A Poetry Workshop'', Smithsonian Folkways, George Abbe, 1961 *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abbe, George 1911 births 1989 deaths Poets from Connecticut University of New Hampshire alumni University of Iowa alumni Mount Holyoke College faculty Yale University faculty University of Connecticut faculty Wayne State University faculty Columbia University faculty Springfield College (Massachusetts) faculty Russell Sage College faculty State University of New York at Plattsburgh faculty University of Maine faculty Central Connecticut State University faculty 20th-century American poets People from Somers, Connecticut