Glenn Ward Dresbach Modern Poetry Collection Photoduplicates

Collection

Identifier: MS D81m

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Scope and Content Note

Xeroxed copies of letters, postal cards, note and literary manuscripts in Modern Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, pertaining to Glenn Ward Dresbach's correspondence with Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, and to publication of his poems in that magazine.

Dates

1915-1934

Creator

Dresbach, Glenn Ward, 1889-1968 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

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Use Information

Use Restrictions Apply: Collection materials cannot be photocopied, scanned, or photographed without written permission from the University of Chicago Library.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Glenn Ward Dresbach was born in Illinois on September 9, 1889 and was an only child. Glenn graduated from Lanark High School and attended a special three-year program at the University of Wisconsin from 1908-1911, where he served as editor of Wisconsin Magazine and won a national intercollegiate award for poetry. After graduating from college, Glenn joined the accounting career force where he worked with the Panama Railroad in the Canal Zone and Phelps-Dodge Corporation of Tyrone, New Mexico between 1911-1921. In 1917, Glenn joined the army and quickly progressed through the ranks, his promotion to major was approved before World War I ended. In 1921, Glenn married Mary Angela Boyle and started back into the career field of accountancy. In 1943, Mary Angela Boyle passed away and in 1944, Glenn remarried to Beverley Githens. Glenn published eleven books of poetry between 1916-1950 including: Selected Poems (1931) published by Henry Holt and Company, and The Collected Poems, 1914-1948, of Glenn Ward Dresbach (1949) published by Caxton Publishers. His poetry has appeared in more than 200 anthologies, textbooks, magazines, and journals, including Poetry, one of the most prestigious poetry journals in America. Glenn was also received over 100 awards and honors, including the George Sterling Memorial Prize, American Literary Association Prize, Poetry World Prize, Hamlin Garland Prize, and United States Poet Laureate International, and he and Beverley were honored with a gold medal distinguishing them as Outstanding Literary Couple by President Diosdado Macapagal of the Philippines in 1965. A few years later in 1968, Glenn Ward Dresbach passed away and is now buried in the Fayetteville National Cemetery in Washington County. (copied from the Biographical Note for MS D81, Glenn Ward Dresbach Papers)