Reuel Denney

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

Life
Denney was born in New York City, and 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. He died in Honolulu.

Recognition

 * 1939 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Poetry

 * (reprint)

Non-fiction

 * The Lonely Crowd, Reuel Denney, David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, (1950), (reprint 2001), a classic of American sociology.
 * (reprint)
 * In Praise of Adam (1965)
 * In Praise of Adam (1965)

Anthologized

 * A new anthology of modern poetry (edited by Selden Rodman). New York: Modern Library, 1946

Fonds
His papers are at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.