George Frederick Morgan, (April 25, 1922 — February 20, 2004) was a poet

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...

 and founder (1948) and long-time editor (1948-1998) of The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts. It was founded in 1947 in New York by William Ayers Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 1948...

, along with his wife Paula Dietz.

Frederick Morgan attended Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, studying under Allen Tate

Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.-Life:...

. Morgan also translated poems from the French.

by

• The Night Sky, Story Line Press
• The One Abiding (2002)
• Poems for Paula, Story Line Press (1995)
• Poems: New and Selected , University of Illinois Press (1987)
• Northbook, University of Illinois Press (1982)
• Poems of the Two Worlds, University of Illinois Press (1977)

about

Lieberman, Laurence 1995 "William Stafford and Frederick Morgan: The Shocks Of Normality," pp. 264ff. in his Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets

External links

• http://www.hudsonreview.com/ "The Hudson Review", his longtime publication
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1159814,00.html Guardian obituary
• http://www.n2hos.com/acm/onfrederickmorgan.html Dick Allen, "The Unfolding: a Recovered Appreciation of Frederick Morgan's Poetry"