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George Abbe

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George Abbe
Born
George Bancroft Abbe

January 28, 1911
Somers, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedMarch 15, 1989(1989-03-15) (aged 78)
OccupationPoet, novelist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of New Hampshire, University of Iowa

George Bancroft Abbe (January 28, 1911 – March 15, 1989)[1] was an American poet and novelist.

Life

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He was graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1933 and from the University of Iowa in 1938.

He taught at Mount Holyoke College, Yale University, University of Connecticut, Wayne State University, Columbia University, University of Maine, Springfield College, Central Connecticut State College, Russell Sage College, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.[2]

A novel manuscript is at University of Iowa.[3] He corresponded with Nicholas Joost,[4] Judith Moffett,[5] and Stephen Vincent Benét,[6] and wrote a foreword to his book Stephen Vincent Benét on writing.[7]

In March 1958, he had tea with poets Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Peter Viereck.[8]

Awards

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Works

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Poetry

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  • Wait for These Things. H. Holt and Company. 1940.
  • Bird in the Mulberry, Collected Lyrics 1938-1952. M. Jones Co. 1954.
  • Collected poems, 1932-1961. R. R. Smith. 1961.
  • Dreams & Dissent: New Poems, 1961-1970. Noone House. 1970. ISBN 978-0-87233-016-0.

Novels

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  • Voices in the Square. New York: Coward-McCann. 1938.
  • Dreamer's Clay. New York: Holt, 1940
  • Mr. Quill's Crusade. New York: Island Press. 1948.
  • The Winter House: New York: Doubleday, 1957
  • One More Puritan: Chicago, Windfall, 1963
  • The Non-Conformist. Boston: Branden, 1966
  • The Funeral: New York: Horizon, 1967
  • Yonderville. Boston: Branden, 1969

Non-Fiction

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  • The Larks. Bauhan, 1974
  • Abbe and Benet, 1976
  • The Pigeon Lover. Donning, 1981

Editor

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  • Hill Wind, YMCA, 1935
  • Stephen Vincent Benet on Writing. Stephen Greene, 1964
  • Poetry in the Round: A Poetry Workshop, Smithsonian Folkways, George Abbe, 1961
  • You and contemporary poetry; an aid-to-appreciation. North Guilford, Connecticut: An Author-Audience Publication. 1965. ISBN 978-0-87233-010-8.
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  • George Abbe Papers are housed at University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections & Archives

References

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  1. ↑ "Abbe, George Bancroft". Who Was Who in America, with World Notables, v. 10: 1989-1993. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 1993. p. 1. ISBN 0837902207.
  2. ↑ "George (Bancroft) Abbe", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009
  3. ↑ "UI Collection Guides -George Abbe Papers, 1938, University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives". lib.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2015-09-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "Booth Family Center for Special Collections - Georgetown University Library". library.georgetown.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
  5. ↑ "Judith Moffett Literary Correspondence Collection - Library Special Collections Department - WMU Libraries". Archived from the original on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
  6. ↑ "Guide to the Benét Family Papers, 1918-1960". rmc.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
  7. ↑ Benét, S.V.; Abbe, G. (1964). Stephen Vincent Benét on writing: a great writer's letters of advice to a young beginner. S. Greene Press. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
  8. ↑ Plath, S.; Kukil, K.V. (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 352. ISBN 9780307429506. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
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