Raymond Holden (1894-1972), Granite and Alabaster. New York; Macmillan, 1922. Courtesy Internet Archive.
Raymond Peckham Holden (April 7, 1894 - June 26, 1972) was an American poet, novelist, and prose writer.[1]
Life[]
Holden was born in New York City.[1]
He attended Princeton University, where he was a classmate of Edmund Wilson.[2] Graduating from Princeton in 1915, he served in the National Guard, 1916-1917.[1]
During his career, Holden worked for many publications, including The New Yorker, Fortune, Newsweek, and Reader’s Digest, and published a number of books, short stories, and poems.[1]
He was the 2nd husband of poet Louise Bogan.[3] He married Bogan in 1925, but the couple divorced in 1937.[4]
Late in life he moved to New Hampshire, where he was associated with the state House of Representatives and the New Hampshire Library Trustees Association.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Granite and Alabaster. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
- Natural History: Poems. New York: Holt, 1938.
- The Arrow at the Heel: Poems. New York: Holt, 1940.
- Selected Poems. New York: Holt, 1946.
- The Reminding Salt: Poems. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1964.
- What So Proudly We Hailed. Taftsville, VT: Countryman, 1976.
Novels[]
- The Penthouse Murders. New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran, 1931.
- Chance Has a Whip. New York: Scribner, 1935.
- Believe the Heart. New York: Holt, 1939.
Non-fiction[]
- Abraham Lincoln: The politician and the man. New York: Minton, Batch, 1929.
- The Merrimack. New York: Rinehart (Rivers of America), 1958.
- Secrets in the Dust: The story of archaeology. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1959.
- Profiles and Portraits of Yale University Presidents. New York: Bond, Wheelwright, 1968.
- Ashburnham, Massachusetts, 1885-1965 (with Barbara B. Holden). Gardner, MA: Hatton Printing, 1970.
Juvenile[]
- All about Famous Scientific Explorations (illustrated by Lee J. Ames). New York: Random House, 1955.
- Magnetism: What it is and how man has used it from ancient times to the present (illustrated by Weimer Percell). New York: Golden Books, 1962.
- All about Fire. New York: Random House, 1964.
- Famous Fossil Finds: Great discoveries in paleontology. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966.
- The Ways of Nesting Birds (illustrated by Grace DeWitt). New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.
- Wildlife Mysteries (illustrated by Shelley Streeter). New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
Poems by Raymond Holden[]
See also[]
References[]
Fonds[]
His papers are held by Princeton University.[3]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Holden, Raymond P. (Raymond Peckham), 1894-1972, Social Archive, University of Virginia. Web, July 1, 2015.
- ↑ Lewis M. Dabney, "The Perspective of Biography: 1929, A turning point" in Edmund Wilson: Centennial reflections (edited by Dabney). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, 119. Google Books, Web, July 1, 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Raymond Holden 1894-1972, Poetry Foundation. Web, Sep. 15, 2018.
- ↑ Louise Bogan, Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry (edited by Alan Parker & Mark Willhardt). London: Routledge, 2005, 41. Google Books, Web, July 1, 2015.
- ↑ Search results = au:Raymond P. Holden, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 1, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- 5 poems by Holden: "The Plow," "Winter," "Snow," "Season's End," "Snow Rain"
- Raymond Holden at the Poetry Foundation
- Holden in Poetry: A magazine of verse, 1912-1922: "Passers-by," "Sugaring," "Night above the Tree Line"
- Books
- Selected Poems at Amazon.com
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