George Frederick Morgan
George Frederick Morgan (April 25, 1922 – February 20, 2004) was a poet, the co-founder (1947) and long-time editor (1948–1998) of the literary quarterly The Hudson Review and an heir to a fortune built on soap. Morgan attended Princeton University, where he studied under Allen Tate. Morgan also translated poems from the French.
George Frederick Morgan
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- 1922
- Died
- 2004
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- United States
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- poet
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- Princeton University
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George Frederick Morgan (April 25, 1922 – February 20, 2004) was a poet, the co-founder (1947) and long-time editor (1948–1998) of the literary quarterly The Hudson Review and an heir to a fortune built on soap. Morgan attended Princeton University, where he studied under Allen Tate. Morgan also translated poems from the French.
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After serving with US forces in World War II, he and Joseph Bennett, another Princeton graduate and veteran, established the Hudson Review in 1948. He edited the quarterly from 1948 until 1998, when he stepped down.
• Lieberman, Laurence. "William Stafford and Frederick Morgan: The Shocks Of Normality" in Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets (1995), University of Missouri
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Morgan was married three times and had six children. His third wife, Paula Dietz, in 1998 succeeded him as editor of The Hudson Review. One of Morgan's sons from an earlier marriage to Constance Canfield was the novelist Seth Morgan.
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