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Occupation
  
Poet, Novelist

Name
  
George Abbe

Language
  
English

Role
  
Poet


Nationality
  
American

Died
  
March 15, 1989

Citizenship
  
American

Books
  
The pigeon lover

Alma mater
  
University of New Hampshire, University of Iowa

Education
  
University of New Hampshire, University of Iowa

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

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Life

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.

His work appeared in Poetry Magazine, He had tea with Sylvia Plath.

A novel manuscript is at University of Iowa. He corresponded with Nicholas Joost, Judith Moffett, and Stephen Vincent Benet, and wrote a forward to his book Stephen Vincent Benét on writing.

Awards

  • 1956/1957 Shelley Memorial Award
  • two grants from State University of New York Research Awards Foundation
  • Poetry

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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. 
  • References

    George Abbe Wikipedia