George Abbe
George Bancroft Abbe was an American poet and novelist.
Life
He was graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1933 and from the University of Iowa in 1938.He taught at Mount Holyoke College, Yale University, University of Connecticut, Wayne State University, Columbia University, University of Maine, Springfield College, Central [Connecticut State College], Russell Sage College, State [University of New York at Plattsburgh].
His work appeared in Poetry Magazine. He had tea with Sylvia Plath.
A novel manuscript is at University of Iowa.
He corresponded with Nicholas Joost, Judith Moffett, and Stephen Vincent Benét, and wrote a foreword to his book Stephen Vincent Benét on writing.
Awards
- 1956/1957 Shelley Memorial Award
- Two grants from State University of New York Research Awards Foundation
Works
Poetry
*Novels
- Dreamer's Clay. New York: Holt, 1940
- The Winter House: New York: Doubleday, 1957
- One More Puritan: Chicago, Windfall, 1963
- The Non-Conformist. Boston: Branden, 1966
- The Funeral: New York: Horizon, 1967
- Yonderville. Boston: Branden, 1969
Non-Fiction
- The Larks. Bauhan, 1974
- Abbe and Benet, 1976
- The Pigeon Lover. Donning, 1981
Editor
- Hill Wind, YMCA, 1935
- Stephen Vincent Benet on Writing. Stephen Greene, 1964Poetry in the Round: A Poetry Workshop, Smithsonian Folkways, George Abbe, 1961