David Morton (poet)

David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.^[1]

David Morton
Born	(1886-02-21)February 21, 1886 Elkton, Kentucky
Died	June 13, 1957(1957-06-13) (aged 71)
Occupation	Journalist, teacher, poet
Alma mater	Vanderbilt University
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Golden Rose Award National Arts Club Prize
College football career
Vanderbilt
Position	Fullback

Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909.^[2][3] Morton played on the varsity football team. After a decade of newspaper work, starting at the Louisville Courier-Journal, he became a teacher in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey.^[4] Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.^[3]

His work appeared in Harper's Magazine.^[5] He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.^[6]

Awards

• Golden Rose Award
• National Arts Club Prize^[7]

Works

Poetry

• "The Kings Are Passing Deathward", Poetry X
• Poems: 1920-1945. A.A. Knopf. 1945.
• Poems of a Lifetime. Watermark Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58235-075-2.
• Ships in the Harbor. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1921.

Nocturnes and Autumnals 1928 publisher Knickerbocker Press

Criticism

• David Morton (1929). The renaissance of Irish poetry: 1880-1930. I. Washburn.

Editor

• David Morton, ed. (1970). Shorter Modern Poems, 1900-1931. Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-6152-2.
• David Morton, ed. (1929). Amherst Undergraduate Verse 1929. The Poetry Society of Amherst College.

Anthologies

• Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1921). "Symbols; Old Ships". Modern American poetry. Harcourt, Brace and company. David Morton poet.