Harold Lewis Cook
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Harold Lewis Cook was an American poet
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His work appeared in The Dial, Harper's, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry.
Between the wars, he met Edna St. Vincent Millay
and her mother at Zelli nightclub in Paris
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His poem "In Time of Civil War" appeared in a pending war issue of The New Yorker, with Stephen Vincent Benet
, and W. H. Auden
.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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His work appeared in The Dial, Harper's, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry.
Between the wars, he met Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...
and her mother at Zelli nightclub in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
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His poem "In Time of Civil War" appeared in a pending war issue of The New Yorker, with Stephen Vincent Benet
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By...
, and W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
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Works
- Spell against death, Harper & brothers, 1933
- Companioned thus, Quercus Press, 1937