Whittemore

(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); The Mother's Breast and the Father's House (1974); and The Feel of Rock (1982). William Carlos Williams (1975) is a critical biography, and The Poet as Journalist (1976) collects essays and reviews from The New Republic. He was co-editor of the little magazine Furioso (1939–53). In 1968 he became a professor at the University of Maryland.