Whittemore, (Edward) Reed (II)

Whittemore, [Edward] Reed [II] (1919–), after graduation from Yale (1941) and service in the air force during World War II began his academic career as a professor of English at Carleton College in Minnesota (1947–67) and his literary career as a poet whose lyrics, often witty and light, appear in Heroes and Heroines (1946); An American Takes a Walk (1956); The Self‐Made Man (1959); The Boy from Iowa: Poems and Essays (1962); The Fascination of the Abomination (1963), a collection of poems, stories, and essays; Poems, New and Selected (1967); From Zero to the Absolute (1967); 50 Poems 50 (1970); and The Mother's Breast and the Father's House (1974). William Carlos Williams (1975) is a critical biography, and The Poet as Journalist (1976) collects essays and reviews from The New Republic. He has written two books on biography with examples from Plutarch to Leon Edel in Pure Lives (1988) and Whole Lives (1989). He was co‐editor of the little magazine Furioso (1939–53) and a professor at the University of Maryland (1968–81).