Louise Townsend Nicholl

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Louise Townsend Nicholl (1890, Scotch Plains, New Jersey – November 10, 1981, Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American poet, and editor.[1]

Life[]

She graduated from Smith College,[2] where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey.[3]

She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse,[4] Measure (1921–1925),[5][6] and was an editor at E. P. Dutton.[7]

She was a friend of Louise Bogan,[8] and Gore Vidal.[9] She corresponded with George Dillon.[10]

She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1953.[11]

Her work appeared in The New Yorker,[12] Saturday Review,[13] The forum,[14] The Literary Review,[15] The Independent,[16]

She lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and had three sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, Marion Nicholl Rawson and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.[17]

Awards[]

Works[]

Poetry[]

  • Amy Bonner, ed. (1946). "Refraction". The Poetry Society of America anthology. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-6003-7.
  • The Blossom-print. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1938.
  • Water and Light. E. P. Dutton & company, inc. 1939.
  • Dawn in snow. E.P. Dutton. 1941.
  • Life is the Flesh: Poems. E.P. Dutton. 1947.
  • The Explicit Flower. Dutton. 1952.
  • Collected Poems. Dutton. 1953.
  • The world's one clock. St. Martin's Press. 1959.
  • The blood that is language. John Day Co. 1967.

Anthologies[]

  • Esther Morgan McCullough, ed. (1956). As I pass, O Manhattan: an anthology of life in New York. Coley Taylor.
  • Robert Penn Warren, ed. (1984). Fifty years of American poetry: anniversary volume for the Academy of American Poets. H.N. Abrams.

Non-fiction[]

  • Louise Townsend Nicholl (June 17, 1916). "Sophia Smith's House in Order". The Saturday Evening Post Magazine.

References[]

  1. ^ "Louise Townsend Nicholl". Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. 2009.
  2. ^ The Smith College Monthly. 1912.
  3. ^ William Drake (1 July 1987). The first wave: women poets in America, 1915-1945. Macmillan. ISBN 9780025334908.
  4. ^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1919-01-01). The Writer. The Writer.
  5. ^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1925-01-01). The Writer. The Writer.
  6. ^ Pope, Deborah (1999-03-01). A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124666.
  7. ^ Saul, George Brandon (1967-01-01). Quintet: Essays on Five American Women Poets. Mouton.
  8. ^ Elizabeth Frank (1986). Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-231-06315-9.
  9. ^ Fred Kaplan (1999). Gore Vidal: a biography. Doubleday. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-385-47703-1.
  10. ^ "George Dillon Papers an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University".
  11. ^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer (1997). The Pulitzer Prize archive: a history and anthology of award-winning materials in journalism, letters, and arts. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-598-30181-0.
  12. ^ "Search". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  13. ^ Voto, Bernard Augustine De (1952-01-01). Saturday Review. Saturday Review Associates.
  14. ^ The Dial. Jansen, McClurg. 1915-01-01.
  15. ^ The Literary Review. Fairleigh Dickinson University. 1959-01-01.
  16. ^ Bacon, Leonard; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Storrs, Richard Salter; Beecher, Henry Ward; Leavitt, Joshua; Bowen, Henry Chandler; Tilton, Theodore; Ward, William Hayes; Holt, Hamilton (1923-01-01). The Independent. founders of the Weekly Review.
  17. ^ "MISS AVIS VAN DYKE MARRIED IN GARDEN; New York Girl Wed to Edwin Clemence at Home of Aunt in Scotch Plains". The New York Times. June 13, 1937.
  18. ^ Gilroy, Harry (January 22, 1965). "Poetry Society Hails Dante, 700; Young Writers Win Awards Set Up Through Bequest A 'Paradiso' Canto Is Sung -- Stahl Leads Work". The New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2010.
  19. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2009-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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