Robert Horan

Robert Horan (August 9, 1922 - September 19, 1981)[1][2] was an American poet.

Life

He lived with Pauline Kael in Berkeley, California.[3][4] He was part of the "Activist" group.[5][6] He was friends with Gian Carlo Menotti, and Samuel Barber, staying with them at "The Capricorn", at Mount Kisco, New York.[7][8][9][10]

His work appeared in Harper's,[11] Poetry,[12] and Kenyon Review.

Awards

• 1948 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Works

• A Beginning (New Haven, Conn., 1948 )

Criticism

• "In Defense of Dylan Thomas", Kenyon Review, 1945

References

1. Heyman, Barbara B. (2012). Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199744640.
2. Horan, Robert William. "California, Death Index, 1940-1997". familysearch.org. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
3. raysawhill.com Retrieved 22 March 2015.
4. "Odd Couple". July 2004.
5. Edward Brunner (2004). Cold War Poetry. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07217-8.
6. "Literary Imagination | Oxford Academic".
7. Barbara B. Heyman (1992). Samuel Barber: the composer and his music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509058-1.
8. John Sutherland (2005). Stephen Spender: a literary life. Oxford University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-517816-6. Robert Horan poet.
9. Gerald Clarke, ed. (2004). Too brief a treat: the letters of Truman Capote. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-375-50133-3.
10. Life, May 1, 1950 - v. 28, no. 18
11. "Robert Horan | Harper's Magazine".
12. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/h7.html

External links

• Edward Mendelson, ed. (2002). "Forward to A Beginning". The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948, Volume 3. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08935-5.
• Ian Hamilton, ed. (1994). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English. Oxford University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-19-866147-4. Robert Horan poet.