Background
Samuel French Morse was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Samuel Morse
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He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1936 and from Harvard University in 1938, and from Boston University in 1952.
Career
From 1962 until 1985, he taught at His first book, Time of Year, had a preface by Wallace Stevens. Mr. Morse doesn"t answer these questions. Probably, they can"t be answered, like "Is my thought a memory, not alive?" or "Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood/And whichever it may be, is it mine?" But his book does belong on that short, distinguished shelf including the collected poems, Holly Stevens"s "Letters of Wallace Stevens" and Helen Hennessy Vendler"s "On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens" Longer Poems." And, who knows, maybe "They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne./We shall return at twilight from the lecture/Pleased that the irrational is rational.
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