Reuel Denney
{{Short description|American poet (1913–1995)}}
Reuel Denney (April 13, 1913 in New York City – May 1, 1995 in Honolulu) was an American poet and academic.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/12/obituaries/reuel-denney-scholar-writer-and-poet-82.html?pagewanted=1| title=Reuel Denney, Scholar, Writer And Poet, 82| author= Robert McG. Thomas Jr| date= May 12, 1995| work=The New York Times }}
Life
Denney grew up in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932. He taught at the University of Chicago. He was professor emeritus, at University of Hawaii, retiring in 1977.
His papers are at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.[http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms781.html The Papers of Reuel Denney in the Dartmouth College Library]
Awards
Works
- The Connecticut River, and other poems, Yale University Press, (1939), (reprint 1971), winner of the Yale Younger Series Award.
- The Lonely Crowd, Reuel Denney, David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, (1950), (reprint 2001), a classic of American sociology.
- {{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Q0AAAAAMBAJ&q=Reuel+Denney&pg=PA206| title=Reactors of the Imagination| journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists| date=July 1953| issn= 0096-3402 }}
- {{cite book| title=Conrad Aiken| url=https://archive.org/details/conradaiken0000denn| url-access=registration| publisher=University of Minnesota Press| year= 1964| isbn= 978-0-7837-2891-9 }}
- In Praise of Adam (1965)
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quV0gBS2EYUC&q=Reuel+Denney| title=The Astonished Muse| publisher=Transaction Publishers| year= 1988| isbn= 978-0-88738-762-3 }} (reprint)
- {{cite book| title=Feast of strangers: selected prose and poetry of Reuel Denney| editor=Tony Quagliano| publisher=Greenwood Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-313-30085-1| url=https://archive.org/details/feastofstrangers00denn}}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=The Oxford book of American light verse| editor=William Harmon| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=1979| isbn=978-0-19-502509-5| url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofamer00amer}}
- A new anthology of modern poetry, Selden Rodman (ed), The Modern Library, 1946
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Category:Dartmouth College alumni
Category:Poets from New York City
Category:Yale Younger Poets winners
Category:20th-century American poets
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