Charles R. Murphy

Charles Rozier Murphy (1884-1936) was an American poet.

Life
Murphy was born and raised Philadelphia, the son of a well-off family. He was a graduate of Harvard University. He married Mildred Johnston Knight (1889-1974). against the wishes of both their families; the couple had a daughter, Carolyn Rozier Murphy.

In the 1920's Murphy and his family moved to Philadelphia, where he worked on compiling an anthology of Quaker poetry. The Murphys became Quakers in 1928, and moved to Swarthmore in the 1930's, when their daughter enrolled in Swarthmore College.

Publications

 * The Fields of Thought. 1937.