Reuel Denney (April 13, 1913 in

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– May 1, 1995 in

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) was an American poet and academic.

Life

Denney grew up in

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. He graduated from

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in 1932. He taught at the

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. He was professor emeritus, at

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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

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Works

* ''The Connecticut River, and other poems'', Yale University Press, (1939), (reprint 1971), winner of the Yale Younger Series Award. * '' The Lonely Crowd'', Reuel Denney,

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, (1950), (reprint 2001), a classic of American sociology. * * * ''In Praise of Adam'' (1965) * (reprint) *

Anthologies

* * ''A new anthology of modern poetry'', Selden Rodman (ed), The Modern Library, 1946

References

1913 births 1995 deaths Dartmouth College alumni Poets from New York City Yale Younger Poets winners 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1910s-stub