David Morton (poet) explained

David Morton
Birth Date:	21 February 1886
Birth Place:	Elkton, Kentucky
Occupation:	Journalist, teacher, poet
Alma Mater:	Vanderbilt University
Genre:	Poetry
Awards:	Golden Rose Award National Arts Club Prize
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David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.^[1]

Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909.^{[2] [3]} Morton played on the varsity football team. After a decade of newspaper work, starting at the Louisville Courier-Journal, he became a teacher in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey.^[4] Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.

His work appeared in Harper's Magazine.^[5] He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.^[6]

Awards

• Golden Rose Award
• National Arts Club Prize^[7]

Works

Poetry

• "The Kings Are Passing Deathward", Poetry X
• Book: Poems: 1920-1945. registration. A.A. Knopf. 1945 .
• Book: Poems of a Lifetime. Watermark Press. 1999. 978-1-58235-075-2 .
• Book: Ships in the Harbor. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1921 .

Nocturnes and Autumnals 1928 publisher Knickerbocker Press

Criticism

• Book: The renaissance of Irish poetry: 1880-1930. David Morton. I. Washburn. 1929 .

Editor

• Book: Shorter Modern Poems, 1900-1931. David Morton. Books for Libraries Press. 1970. 978-0-8369-6152-2 .
• Book: Amherst Undergraduate Verse 1929. David Morton. The Poetry Society of Amherst College. 1929 .

Anthologies

• Book: Modern American poetry. David Morton poet.. Symbols; Old Ships. Louis Untermeyer . Harcourt, Brace and company. 1921 .

Sources

• The Kentucky Encyclopedia

Notes and References

1. Book: Louis Untermeyer. Modern American Poetry. 1921. Harcourt, Brace. 346–.
2. Book: Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 1915. Vanderbilt University.. 53–.
3. Book: The trouble with Francis. registration. 14. David Morton poet.. Robert Francis . 978-0-87023-083-7 . 1971 . Univ of Massachusetts Press.
4. Web site: WebCite query result . www.webcitation.org . 2016-04-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091022183951/http://geocities.com/~bblair/bav22_2.htm . October 22, 2009 .
5. Web site: David Morton Harper's Magazine. 2016-04-10.
6. Book: Hammett, Dashiell. Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960. 2002-04-01. Counterpoint. 9781582432106. en.
7. Book: Shaw, Albert. The American Review of Reviews. 1920-01-01. Review of Reviews.. en.