Harry Elmore Hurd

Harry Elmore Hurd (April 23, 1889 – August 21, 1958) was an American poet and minister.

Harry Elmore Hurd
Born(1889-04-23)April 23, 1889
New Hampshire, United States
DiedAugust 21, 1958(1958-08-21) (aged 69)
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Education
Occupations
  • Poet
  • minister

Life

Harry Hurd was born on April 23, 1889, in New Hampshire. He graduated from Boston University in 1916[1] and Harvard University in 1922. He was a Chaplain, First Lieutenant with the 33rd Engineers during World War I.[2] He was a minister in Methodist and Congregational churches for eighteen years, in Haverhill,[3] Quincy, and Reading.[4]

Hurd died on August 21, 1958, in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Publications

His work was publisher in Prairie Schooner,[5] Overland Monthly,[6] Voices,[7] Saturday Review,[8]

Awards

Works
  • "Autumn Trail". The New Hampshire Troubadour. September 1947. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14.

Books
  • Yankee boundaries: Poems. J. Day Co. 1949.
  • "Desert Sky Hawks". Improvement Era 1936. XXXIX (7). July 1936.
  • West of Eden. Boston, MA: Harry Elmore Hurd. 1934.
  • West of East. Priv. print. 1934.
  • Mountains & Molehills: Essays and Poems. R.G. Badger. 1926.
  • Possessions of a Sky Pilot. The Four Seas Company. 1923.

Anthologies
  • Lowry Charles Wimberly, ed. (1943). Prairie schooner caravan; an anthology. University of Nebraska press.
  • Poet lore. Vol. 47. Writer's Center. 1941.
  • Thomas Curtis Clark, ed. (1938). The golden book of religious verse: the golden book of faith. Garden City publishing co.

References
  1. University, Boston (1916). "Catalogue". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Bostonia". 1918. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Foynes, Mark C (2001). Plaistow, Westville, and the North Parish. ISBN 978-0-7385-0943-3.
  4. "Harvard magazine". 1958. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Wimberly, Lowry Charles (1965). "The Prairie Schooner". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Harte, Bret (1930). "Overland monthly, and Out west magazine". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "Voices". 1932. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Voto, Bernard Augustine De (1971). Saturday review. ISBN 978-0-8352-0394-4.
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