David Morton

David H. Morton (February 21, 1886 – June 13, 1957) was an American poet.

Life
Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909. After a decade of newspaper work, starting at the Louisville Courier-Journal, he became a teacher in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey. Beginning in 1924, he taught at Amherst College.

His work appeared in Harper's Magazine. He is noted for having written a fan letter to Dashiell Hammett.

Recognition

 * Golden Rose Award
 * National Arts Club Prize

Poetry

 * "The Kings Are Passing Deathward", Poetry X

Reviews
"What is there in David Morton's verse that seems to save it, that intervenes in moments of irritation with its punctional urbanity? There is not an original line in it. Not one cry, one intense expression comes from it; one vision that the poet has kept from his privileged dreaming, which can draw the mind an inch out of even the shallowest rut."