Harold Lewis Cook

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Harold Lewis Cook was an American poet.

His work appeared in The Dial, [1] Harper's, [2] The Nation, [3] The New Yorker, [4] and Poetry. [5]

Between the wars, he met Edna St. Vincent Millay and her mother at Zelli nightclub in Paris. [6] His poem "In Time of Civil War" appeared in a pending war issue of The New Yorker, with Stephen Vincent Benét, and W. H. Auden. [7]

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References

  1. Browne, Francis Fisher (1929). Francis Fisher Browne (ed.). The Dial. Vol. 86. Jansen, McClurg.
  2. Cook, Harold Lewis (1919-05-01). "Would that I knew: The future of an ideal". Harper's Magazine. Vol. May 1919. ISSN   0017-789X . Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  3. "Harold Lewis Cook | The Nation". Archived from the original on 2012-10-14.
  4. Cook, Harold Lewis (1938-04-30). "In Time of Civil War". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
  5. "January 1936 : Poetry Magazine". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  6. Milford, Nancy (2002-09-01). Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay . Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN   9780375760815.
  7. Yagoda, Ben (2000-01-01). About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   9780684816050.