John Hall Wheelock Quotes

John Hall Wheelock was born in New York, USA. He was an American poet. He graduated from Harvard University in 1908. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. As a student, he was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and published his first work, Verses by Two Undergraduates. For his work Poems Old and New he received the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award in 1956, and the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1957. In 1962, he won the Bollingen Prize. In 1972, he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Poetry Society of America for notable achievement in poetry. He wrote several poems include: The Beloved Adventure, The Black Panther, and In Love and Song. He was a member of the Poetry Society of America, and the Academy of American Poets.