Reuel Denney

Reuel Denney (April 13, 1913 New York City – May 1, 1995 Honolulu) was an American poet and academic.^[1]

Life

Denney grew up in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932. He taught at the University of Chicago. He was professor emeritus, at University of Hawaii, retiring in 1977.

His papers are at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.^[2]

Awards

• 1939 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Works

• The Lonely Crowd, Reuel Denney, David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, (1950), (reprint 2001), a classic of American sociology.
• The astonished muse. Transaction Publishers. 1988. ISBN 9780887387623. http://books.google.com/books?id=quV0gBS2EYUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Reuel+Denney&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false.  (reprint)
• "Reactors of the Imagination". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. July 1953. ISSN 00963402. http://books.google.com/books?id=0Q0AAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA206&dq=Reuel+Denney&cd=4#v=onepage&q=Reuel%20Denney&f=false. 
• The Connecticut River, and other poems. AMS Press, 1971. ISBN 9780404538385.  (reprint)
• Tony Quagliano, ed (1999). Feast of strangers: selected prose and poetry of Reuel Denney. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313300851. 
• Conrad Aiken. University of Minnesota Press. 1964. ISBN 9780783728919. 
• In Praise of Adam (1965)

Anthologies

• William Harmon, ed (1979). The Oxford book of American light verse. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195025095. 
• A new anthology of modern poetry, Selden Rodman (ed), The Modern Library, 1946

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