Howard Buck (poet)

Howard Buck
Born	Howard Swazey Buck October 23, 1894 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	August 15, 1947 (aged 52) Elgin, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Yale University Phillips Andover University High School
Occupation	Poet, Critic, Professor, Painter
Employer	American Expeditionary Forces Yale University The University of Chicago
Known for	The Tempering: Leaves from a Notebook (1919) A Study in Smollett (1925) Smollett as Poet (1927)
Parent(s)	Carl Darling Buck Clarinda Darling (Swazey) Buck
Awards	1919 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Honors	Croix de Guerre

Howard Swazey Buck (October 23, 1894 – 1947) was an American poet and critic.

Life

He graduated from Yale University in 1916,^[1] where he contributed light verse to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.^[2]

During World War I, he was in the American Expeditionary Forces.^[3]

Awards

• 1919 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Works

• The Tempering: Leaves from a Notebook. Yale University Press. 1919. reprint. BiblioBazaar, LLC. 2009. ISBN 978-1-110-96074-3.
• A Study in Smollett: chiefly "Peregrine Pickle", Howard Swazey Buck, Philip Hamilton, Yale university press, 1925
• Smollett as poet, Yale University Press, 1927

References

1. Harvard Alumni Association; Associated Harvard Clubs (1919). Harvard Alumni Bulletin. 22. Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated. p. 899. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
2. Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872–1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 93.
3. Harriet Monroe, ed. (1919). Poetry, Volume 13. Modern Poetry Association.

External links

• Damian Grant (1977). Tobias Smollett: a study in style. Manchester University Press ND. ISBN 978-0-7190-0607-4.
• "The Authenticity of Smollett's Ode to Independence", by Luella F. Norwood, Oxford University Press. 1941