Robert Horan Explained

Robert Horan
Birth Date:	9 August 1922
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American

Robert Horan (August 9, 1922 – September 19, 1981)^{[1] [2]} was an American poet.

Life

He lived with Pauline Kael in Berkeley, California.^{[3] [4]} He was part of the "Activist" group.^{[5] [6]} He was friends with Gian Carlo Menotti, and Samuel Barber, staying with them at "The Capricorn", at Mount Kisco, New York.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

His work appeared in Harper's,^[11] Poetry,^[12] and Kenyon Review.

Awards

• 1948 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Works

• A Beginning (New Haven, Conn., 1948)

Criticism

• "In Defense of Dylan Thomas", Kenyon Review, 1945

External links

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=e3nmUfYCvUwC&q=Robert+Horan+poet&pg=PA332. Forward to A Beginning. The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948, Volume 3. Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press. 2002. 978-0-691-08935-5 .
• Book: The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English. registration. 235. Robert Horan poet.. Ian Hamilton. Oxford University Press. 1994. 978-0-19-866147-4 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Heyman, Barbara B.. Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works. 2012. Oxford University Press. 978-0199744640.
2. Web site: Horan. Robert William. California, Death Index, 1940-1997. familysearch.org. 8 December 2013.
3. Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill, "Pauline Kael" https://web.archive.org/web/20220223181611/https://sites.google.com/site/raysawhill/home/interviews/pauline-kael Retrieved 21 October 2022.
4. Web site: Odd Couple. . July 2004.
5. Book: Cold War Poetry. Edward Brunner. University of Illinois Press. 2004. 978-0-252-07217-8 .
6. Web site: Literary Imagination | Oxford Academic.
7. Book: Samuel Barber: the composer and his music. Barbara B. Heyman. Oxford University Press. 1992. 978-0-19-509058-1 .
8. Book: Stephen Spender: a literary life. registration. 320. Robert Horan poet.. John Sutherland. Oxford University Press . 2005. 978-0-19-517816-6 .
9. Book: Too brief a treat: the letters of Truman Capote. Gerald Clarke. Random House, Inc.. 2004. 978-0-375-50133-3 .
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=-UwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Robert+Horan+poet&pg=PA70 Life, May 1, 1950 - v. 28, no. 18
11. Web site: Robert Horan | Harper's Magazine.
12. Web site: Historical Index: Poetry Magazine . 2009-12-16 . 2009-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090310160122/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/h7.html . dead .