Background
Gregory, Horace Victor was born on April 10, 1898 in Milwaukee. Son of Henry Bolton and Anna Catherine (Henkel) Gregory.
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Horace Victor Gregory
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Horace Victor Gregory, American poet, critic. Recipient Lyric prize Poetry magazine, 1928, Helen Haire Levinson prize, 1934; Russell Loines award for poetry American Institute Arts and Letters, 1942; fellowship award Academy American Poets, 1961; Bollingen prize in poetry, 1965; Guggenheim fellow, 1951. Member National Institute Arts and Letters.
Education
Student, German-English Academy, Milwaukee
Career
Editor New Letters in American, 1937. Editor: (with Marya Zaturenska) The Triumph of Life, 1943, Selected Poetry of Robert Browning, 1956, The Mentor Book of Religious Verse, 1957, The Crystal Cabinet: An Invitation to Poetry, 1962, The Silver Swan, 1966, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline and Other Tales and Poems, 1964, Selected Poems of Electrical Engineer Cummings, 1965, Spirit of Time and Place: Collected Essays of Horace Gregory, 1973. Editor: (with Marya Zaturenska) The Tigers Eye.
Editor: (with Marya Zaturenska) The Portable Sherwood Anderson, 1949-1971, The Selected Poems of George Gordon Lord Byron, 1969.
Achievements
Membership
Member National Institute Arts and Letters.
Connections
Married Marya Zaturenska, August 21, 1925. Children: Joanna Elizabeth, Patrick Bolton.
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March 11, 1982 (aged 83) -
Nationality
American
Awards
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Recipient Lyric prize Poetry magazine, 1928, Helen Haire Levinson prize, 1934. Russell Loines award for poetry American Institute Arts and Letters, 1942. Fellowship award Academy American Poets, 1961.tempSpaceBollingen prize in poetry, 1965. Guggenheim fellow, 1951.Recipient Lyric prize Poetry magazine, 1928, Helen Haire Levinson prize, 1934. Russell Loines award for poetry American Institute Arts and Letters, 1942. Fellowship award Academy American Poets, 1961.tempSpaceBollingen prize in poetry, 1965.
Guggenheim fellow, 1951.