MORGAN, (George) Frederick 1922-2004

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born April 25, 1922, in New York, NY; died of respiratory failure February 20, 2004, in New York, NY. Editor and author. Morgan was a poet and founding editor of the Hudson Review. Completing his college degree at Princeton University in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army that year and served until the end of World War II. Although his father wanted him to work at the family soap business, Morgan instead founded the Hudson Review with partners William Arrowsmith and Joseph Bennett. Establishing a literary journal unaffiliated with any university, the founders funded operations with their own money so that they could publish the works of unknown but talented new writers. Within the journals pages would appear the writings of such acclaimed authors and poets as e. e. cummings, Joyce Carol Oates, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Eudora Welty, and Dylan Thomas. Morgan himself was a respected poet, releasing his first verse collection, A Book of Change, in 1972. Many more books would follow, including Poems of the Two Worlds (1977), Northbook (1982), and Poems for Paula (1995); he also translated poetry and edited two collections of writings previously published in Hudson Review. Morgan's final publications were The Night Sky (2002) and One Abiding (2003).

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

BOOKS

Contemporary Poets, 7th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.

PERIODICALS

Chicago Tribune, February 27, 2004, sec. 3, p. 11.

Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2004, p. B10.

New York Times, February 23, 2004, p. A23.

Times (London, England), March 1, 2004, p. 25.

Washington Post, February 27, 2004, p. B6.