Edgar Bogardus
American poet
Edgar Collins Bogardus (26 July 1927 – 11 May 1958) was an American poet. His work appeared in The Kenyon Review , Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Literary Magazine.
Biography
He was born on 26 July 1927 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and an M.A. He taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology, the University of Connecticut, and Kenyon College. He was managing editor of the Kenyon Review. He died on 11 May 1958 in Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Awards
1953: Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
Various jangling keys. Yale University Press. 1953.
Last poems, The Kenyon review, 1960
Anthologies
Robert T. Moore (ed.).
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