Background
Hartsock was born on May 5, 1903 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hartsock was born on May 5, 1903 in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was educated at Boys High School (later Grady High School) in Atlanta and earned Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Emory University, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
He published three volumes of poetry and served as a Professor of Poetics at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. Suffering from pernicious anemia, Hartsock died on December 14, 1930 at the age of 27. After graduation, he became an instructor at Georgia School of Technology in 1927 before becoming Professor of Poetics at Oglethorpe in 1929, where he taught until his death. Hartsock"s volumes of poetry were: Romance and Stardust (1925).
Narcissus and Iscariot (1927).
And Strange Splendor In 1929 he was awarded the annual award of excellence by the Poetry Society of America for "Strange Splendor," the first Atlantan to ever be so recognized. A bust of Hartsock by famed sculptor Fritz Zimmer currently resides in the Philip Weltner Library at Oglethorpe University.
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