Melville Henry Cane



Melville Henry Cane (April 15, 1879 - March 10, 1980) was an American poet and lawyer.

Life
As a student at Columbia University, Cane worked as a reporter at the New York Evening Post and also wrote poetry. Cane earned his law degree in 1905 and later specialized in copyright law.

Cane was a legal counsel to notable writers like Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Ayn Rand, William Saroyan, and Thomas Wolfe and also served on the board of directors for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

Recognition
Cane was also awarded the Frost Medal by the Poetry Society of America in 1971 for lifetime achievement.

Publications

 * January Garden. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1926.
 * Behind Dark Spaces. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1930.
 * Poems: New and selected. New York: Harcourt Brace 1938.
 * A Wider Arc: Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947.
 * And Pastures New: A Collection of Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1956.
 * Bullet-Hunting, & Other New Poems. New York: Harcourt, Jovanovich, 1960.
 * To Build a Fire. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1963.
 * So That it Flower: A gathering of poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
 * Eloquent April: New Poems & Prose. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.
 * Snow Toward Evening. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974.
 * The First Firefly, New poems & prose. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974.

Non-fiction

 * Making a Poem: An Inquiry into the Creative Process. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1953; 2nd edition, 1962.
 * All and Sundry, An oblique autobiography. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

Edited

 * The Man From Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings of Sinclair Lewis (edited by Harry E. Maule & Melville H. Cane). London: Heinemann, 1954.
 * The Golden Year: The Poetry Society of America Anthology (1910-1960) (edited by Melville Cane, John Farrar & Louise Townsend Nicholl). New York: Fine Editions Press, 1960.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy West Virginia University.