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词条 David McCord
释义

  1. Life

  2. Awards

  3. Poems

  4. Works

     Poetry  Essays  Editor  Anthologies 

  5. References

  6. External links

{{about|the Harvard University official|the Canadian lawyer and philanthropist|David Ross McCord}}

David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York City{{snd}}April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

Life

He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.[1]

He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.[2]

Awards

  • Golden Rose Award
  • 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[3]
  • 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
  • 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
  • Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
  • Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London

Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.[4]

Poems

{{poemquote|

On Halloween, what bothers some

About these witches, is how come

In sailing, through the air, like bats

They never seem, to lose their hats?[5]}}

A review of Cram & Ferguson's design for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company building in Boston's Back Bay upon its 1939 dedication:

{{poemquote|Ralph Adams Cram

One morning said damn

And designed the Urn Burial

For a concern actuarial.[6]}}

Works

Poetry

  • {{cite book| title=Oddly Enough| publisher=Washburn & Thomas| year=1926 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is| others=Illustrator Henry B Kane| publisher=Little, Brown| year=1952| isbn=978-0-316-55502-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection| publisher=Doubleday| year=1948}}
  • {{cite book| title=An Acre for Education| publisher=Crimson Printing Co.| year=1954 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Odds Without Ends| publisher=Little, Brown & Co.| year=1954 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Take Sky| publisher=Little Brown & Company| year=1962 |isbn=978-0-316-55509-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Every Time I Climb A Tree| publisher=Little, Brown & Co.| year=1967}}
  • {{cite book| title=All Day Long| publisher=Bantam Books| year=1971| isbn=978-0-440-40376-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Star in the Pail | publisher=Little, Brown and Company| year=1975 | isbn=0-316-55515-0}}[4]
  • {{cite book| title=One At A Time | publisher=Little, Brown and Company| year=1977 }}[4]
  • {{cite book| title=Dinosaurs| publisher=Educational Development Corporation| year=1977| isbn=978-0-88110-119-5 }}

Essays

  • {{cite book| title=In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard| publisher=Harvard University Press| year=1963| isbn=978-0-674-44701-1 }}

Editor

  • {{cite book| title=What Cheer: an anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction| editor=David Thompson Watson McCord| publisher=Modern Library| year=1955 }}

Anthologies

  • {{cite book| title=Modern American poetry: a critical anthology| editor=Louis Untermeyer| publisher=Harcourt, Brace and company| year=1936 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Oxford book of American poetry| editors=David Lehman, John Brehm| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-19-516251-6 }}

References

1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWQQAAAAIAAJ|title=Harper's Magazine|last=Hartman|first=Lee Foster|last2=Allen|first2=Frederick Lewis|date=1953-01-01|publisher=Harper & Brothers|language=en}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html|title=David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99|last=Affairs|first=Harvard Office of News and Public|website=www.news.harvard.edu|access-date=2016-04-13|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418155439/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html|archivedate=2016-04-18|df=}}
3. ^http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11
4. ^1 2 [https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970 "National Book Awards – 1970"]. NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
5. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8426844.html| title=David McCord, poet| work=The Boston Globe | date=April 15, 1997 }}
6. ^Shand-Tucci, Douglass, Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1880-2000, Revised and Expanded Edition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), p. 183.

External links

{{Wikiquote}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501001702/http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/About/Awards/McCord.pdf "PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon]
  • http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html
  • http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana
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