Howard Buck (poet)

Howard Buck
Born Howard Swazey Buck
(1894-10-23)October 23, 1894
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died August 15, 1947(1947-08-15) (aged 52)
Elgin, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Yale University
Phillips Andover
University High School
Occupation Poet, Critic, Professor, Painter
Employer American Expeditionary Forces
Yale University
The University of Chicago
Known for The Tempering: Leaves from a Notebook (1919)
A Study in Smollett (1925)
Smollett as Poet (1927)
Parent(s) Carl Darling Buck
Clarinda Darling (Swazey) Buck
Awards 1919 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Honors Croix de Guerre

Howard Swazey Buck (October 23, 1894 – August 15, 1947) was an American poet and critic.

Life

He graduated from Yale University in 1916,[1] where he contributed light verse to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[2]

During World War I, he was in the American Expeditionary Forces.[3]

Awards

Works

  • The Tempering: Leaves from a Notebook. Yale University Press. 1919. reprint. BiblioBazaar, LLC. 2009. ISBN 978-1-110-96074-3.
  • A Study in Smollett: chiefly "Peregrine Pickle", Howard Swazey Buck, Philip Hamilton, Yale university press, 1925
  • Smollett as poet, Yale University Press, 1927

References

  1. ↑ Harvard Alumni Association; Associated Harvard Clubs (1919). Harvard Alumni Bulletin. 22. Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated. p. 899. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  2. ↑ Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872–1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 93.
  3. ↑ Harriet Monroe, ed. (1919). Poetry, Volume 13. Modern Poetry Association.
  • Damian Grant (1977). Tobias Smollett: a study in style. Manchester University Press ND. ISBN 978-0-7190-0607-4.
  • "The Authenticity of Smollett's Ode to Independence", by Luella F. Norwood, Oxford University Press. 1941
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