Horace Gregory facts for kids
Horace Gregory (born April 10, 1898, died March 11, 1982) was an American poet who won many awards. He also translated old poems and wrote about books. He taught at a college too. In 1965, he won a big award called the Bollingen Prize.
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Life of Horace Gregory
Horace Gregory went to the University of Wisconsin and finished in 1923. He wrote eight books of his own poems. He also translated poems from ancient Roman poets like Catullus and Ovid. He wrote life stories (biographies) about artists like Whistler and poet Amy Lowell.
In 1925, he married Marya Zaturenska, who was also a poet and editor. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry in 1938. They had two children, Patrick and Joanna.
His collected writings, called Spirit of Time and Place, came out in 1973. He wrote reviews of books for The New York Times. His poems and writings were also in magazines like The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine.
People described Gregory's poetry as "literary." It showed that he understood the lives of everyday working people. Poet Richard Eberhart said that Gregory's poems were "lyrical and straight-forward."
Gregory taught English at Sarah Lawrence College for 26 years. He was a professor there from 1934 to 1960. One of his students was Myra Cohn Livingston, who later became a children's poet.
Later in his life, Horace Gregory and his wife lived in Palisades, New York. His writings and papers are kept at Syracuse University.
Awards and Honors
Horace Gregory received several important awards for his poetry:
- 1942 Russell Loines Memorial Fund Poetry Award
- 1961 Academy of American Poets Fellowship
- 1965 Bollingen Prize
Works by Horace Gregory
Poetry Books
- Chelsea Rooming House (1930)
- No Retreat (1933)
- Chorus for Survival (1935)
- Fortune for Mirabel (1941)
- Poems, 1930-1940 (1941)
- The Triumph of Life: Poems of Consolation for the English-Speaking World (1943)
- The Door in the Desert (1951)
- Medusa in Gramercy Park (1961)
- Collected Poems (1964)
- Another Look (1976)
Translated Works
- Love Poems of Ovid (1964)
