David McCord
David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York - April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.
Life
He grew up in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.[1]
He was executive director of the Harvard College Fund, raising millions of dollars.[2]
Awards
- Golden Rose Award
- 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[3]
- 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
- 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
- Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
- Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London
Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.[4]
Poem
On Halloween, what bothers some
About these witches, is how come
In sailing, through the air, like bats
They never seem, to lose their hats?[5]
Works
Poetry
- Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
- Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.
- An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
- Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.
- About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection, Doubleday, 1948
- All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 978-0-440-40376-0.
- The Star in the Pail. Little, Brown and Company. 1975. ISBN 0-316-55515-0.[4]
- One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977.[4]
- Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.
Essays
- In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.
Editor
- David Thompson Watson McCord, ed. (1955). What cheer: an anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. Modern Library.
Anthologies
- Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company.
- David Lehman, John Brehm, ed. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6.
References
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=VWQQAAAAIAAJ&q=David+McCord&dq=David+McCord&lr=&pgis=1
- ↑ http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
- ↑ "David McCord, poet". The Boston Globe. April 15, 1997.
External links
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- "PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon
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- http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana
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