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This Blessed Earth: New and Selected Poems, 1927-1977
Published in Hardcover by Scribner (1978)
Author: John Hall Wheelock
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An underappreciated American lyric poet from East Hampton
John Hall Wheelock, the American lyric poet, is probably best remembered, in the words of P. G. Woodhouse, as "the man who wrote the poem about having a black panther caged within his breast." Certainly he is one of the most under appreciated American poets of his generation. Wheelock graduated Harvard in 1908 as editor of the Harvard Monthly and the class poet. Eventually he would rise to become senior editor at Charles Scribner and Sons, where he worked with Thomas Wolfe and James Truslow Adams, but mainly he wrote verse. In 1936, his published volume of Collected Works was awarded the Golden Rose by the New England Poetry Society, as that year's most distinguished contribution to American poetry. In 1962 Wheelock won the Bollingen Prize and in 1972 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Poetry Society of America for notable achievement in poetry. "This Blessed Earth" collects poems that were published between 1927 (although, some, like "Aphrodite" were written as early as 1906), and 1977, a year before Wheelock's death. As Wheelock once said, "in poetry, words are employed more as an end, and less as a means merely, than is the case with prose." His poetry, such as "Night Thought in Ages," is lyrical without taking full flight. Ironically, more than any of his poems I have used instead Wheelock's description of the role of the poet: "The statements of science are hearsay, reports from a world outside


Editor to Author
Published in Paperback by Scribner (1987)
Authors: Maxwell E. Perkins and John Hall Wheelock
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Authors: Maxwell E. Perkins and John Hall Wheelock
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In Love and Song
Published in Hardcover by Encore Editions (1971)
Author: John Hall Wheelock
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In Love and Song: Poems
Published in Paperback by Scribner Book Company (1971)
Author: John Hall Wheelock
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The Last Romantic: A Poet Among Publishers: The Oral Autobiography of John Hall Wheelock
Published in Hardcover by University of South Carolina Press (2002)
Authors: John Hall Wheelock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman, and George P. Garrett
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Author: John Hall Wheelock
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