Whittemore, Reed

Whittemore, Reed

▪ American teacher and poet
in full  Edward Reed Whittemore II 
born September 11, 1919, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

      American teacher and poet noted for his free-flowing ironic verse.

      Whittemore cofounded the literary magazine Furioso while he was a student at Yale University (B.A., 1941). He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and afterward revived and edited Furioso and its successor, The Carleton Miscellany, while a professor of English at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota (1947–66). From 1968 to 1984 he taught at the University of Maryland, and he revived the magazine Delos in Maryland in 1988. In 1964–65 and again in 1984–85, Whittemore served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (now poet laureate consultant in poetry). Characters and quotes from literature inspired many of the whimsical poems in his first collection, Heroes & Heroines (1946). Daily life, the seasons, nature, and modern culture are the subjects of his verses in An American Takes a Walk (1956) and The Self-Made Man (1959).

      In the 1960s, while Whittemore's humorous tone remained, a note of sadness crept into the poems in such collections as The Boy from Iowa (1962) and Poems, New and Selected (1967); in Fifty Poems Fifty (1970) and The Mother's Breast and the Father's House (1974) the poet's bitterness also emerges. Whittemore's later collections include The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New (1990). Among his prose writings are the biography William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey (1975) and a group portrait entitled Six Literary Lives (1993).

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