Horace Gregory

Horace Gregory (1898-1982) was a prize-winning American poet and literary critic. Husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska, he was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in 1923, he is the author of books of poems, Chealsea Rooming House (1930), Poems, 1930–1940 (1941), and Another Look (1976), and books of criticism, Pilgrim of the Apocalypse (1933)—a study of D. H. Lawrence, The Shield of Achilles (1944),—containing poetics essays, A History of American Poetry, 1900–1940 (1946) of which his wife was co-author, another book of essays, The Dying Gladiators (1961), and Dorothy Richardson: An Adventure in Self-Discovery (1967). He also published translations of the poems of Cattullus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid, and a memoir in 1971. His collected essays were published in 1973.

His poetry is known for its dramatic structure and deep insights into contemporary life's harshness.