Horace Gregory

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Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898-March 11, 1982) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor. Husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska, he was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in 1923, he is the author of books of poems, Chealsea Rooming House (1930), Poems, 1930-1940 (1941), and Another Look (1976), and books of criticism, Pilgrim of the Apocalypse (1933)—a study of D. H. Lawrence, The Shield of Achilles (1944),—containing poetics essays, A History of American Poetry, 1900–1940 (1946) of which his wife was co-author, another book of essays, The Dying Gladiators (1961), and Dorothy Richardson: An Adventure in Self-Discovery (1967). He also published translations of the poems of Catullus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid, and a memoir in 1971. His collected essays were published in 1973.

Gregory was a professor of English at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. He also wrote book reviews that were published in the New York Times and other newspapers as well as periodicals.

His poetry is known for its dramatic structure and deep insights into contemporary life's harshness. Gregory received the Academy of American Poets Award, the 1965 Bollingen Prize and 1942 Russell Loines Memorial Fund Poetry Award.

During the end of his life, Gregory and his wife were residents of Palisades, Rockland County, New York.