"American Poet" John Hall Wheelock Hand Signed Poem For Sale

 Up for sale "American Poet" John Hall Wheelock Hand Signed Poem "To You, Perhaps Yet Unborn, That SomeMay Read These Rhymes." 

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John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American

poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. The son of William Efner Wheelock and Emily Charlotte Hall, John Hall

Wheelock was born in Far Rockaway, New

York, and brought up in the

neighborhood now occupied by Rockefeller Center. He summered in a family home on Long Island's South

Fork, which provided inspiration for

much of his work.

John Hall Wheelock graduated from Harvard University in

1908, and was class poet. As a student, he was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly,

and published his first work, Verses by Two Undergraduates,

anonymously with his friend Van Wyck Brooks during their freshman year. In 1910, he

began work with Charles Scribner and Sons and

by 1947 had risen to the position of senior editor. During his career he worked

with such distinguished authors as Thomas Wolfe and James Truslow Adams and

is noted for discovering poets May Swenson and James Dickey. Wheelock's published volume of Collected

Works was awarded the Golden Rose by the New England Poetry Society in

1936, as the most distinguished contribution to American poetry of that year.

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 1965

the Signet Society Medal, Harvard University, for distinguished achievement in

the arts. In 1972 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Poetry Society of

America for notable achievement in poetry. John

Hall Wheelock was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Poetry Society of

America (Vice president,

1944-1946), National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice-president), and the Academy of American

Poets (chancellor, 1947–71;

honorary fellow, 1974-1978). He was an honorary consultant in American letters

to the Library of Congress.