Poems

by Dunstan Thompson

55 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1943

About the author

Dunstan Thompson was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1918. He was educated in England and France, and later at the Canterbury School and Harvard. During one summer abroad, while at Rye, he was a student of Conrad Aiken. At this time, his poetry and criticism did much to enliven The Harvard Monthly, which he edited with distinction. He has since published verse in The New Republic and Poetry. On its spasmodic appearances, his own magazine, Vice Versa, was perhaps the most discussed publication of its kind in the United States. He enlisted in the U.S. military in 1942, publishing his first collection Poems (1943) while serving abroad. His other books include The Dove with the Bough of Olive (novel, 1942), The Lament for the Sleepwalker (poetry, 1947), The Phoenix in the Desert (travel memoir, 1951), and Poems 1950-1974 (1984). He died in 1975 after years of absence from literary circles.