George Hill Dillon (November 12, 1906 - May 9, 1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and an editor of Poetry magazine.
George Dillon (1906-1968). Courtesy PoemHunter.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Dillon was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West.
He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English.
Career[]
He was the editor for Poetry magazine from 1937 to 1949, during which time he also served in World War II.[1]
Though included in several contemporary anthologies, Dillon's poetry is largely out of print.
He is perhaps best known as a lover (among many) of Edna St. Vincent Millay (whom he met in 1928 at the University of Chicago, where she was giving a reading). Dillon was the inspiration for Millay's epic 52-sonnet sequence Fatal Interview, and they later collaborated on translations from Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal in 1936.
Recognition[]
- 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for The Flowering Stone [2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Boy in the Wind. New York: Viking Press, 1927.
- The Flowering Stone, New York: Viking Press, 1931.
Bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
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References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ "History:Poetry Magazine," The Poetry Foundation, Web, June 25, 2011.
- ↑ 1932 Winners, The Pulitzer Prizes. Web.
- ↑ Search results=George Dillon, WorldCat, Web, July 9, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Fall of Stars"
- George H. Dillon at the Poetry Foundation
- George Dillon at PoemHunter (5 poems)
- Sequence: Nine poems by George H. Dillon in Poetry.
- About
- George Dillon in the Houghton-Mifflin Chronology of U.S. Literature
- History of Poetry Magazine
- "The Summery Night Before the Frost (Revisiting George H. Dillon)" - Open Letters Monthly
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