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| period = 1923–1940
| movement = [[Modernism]], [[Socialist]]
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| influences = [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], [[Lewis Carroll]], [[Edward Lear]], [[Walt Whitman]], [[William Blake]]
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'''John Brooks Wheelwright''' (sometimes '''Wheelright''') (9 September 1897&ndash;13 September 1940) was an [[United States|American]] poet from a [[Boston Brahmin]] background. He belonged to the poetic ''avant garde'' of the 1930s and was a [[Marxist]], a founder-member of the [[Trotskyist]] [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]] in the United States. He was [[bisexual]]<ref name="glbtq">{{citation |title=American Writers on the Left |date=2002 |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/am_mawriters_left.html |periodical=[[glbtq.com]] |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}</ref>
'''John Brooks Wheelwright''' (sometimes '''Wheelright''') (September 9, 1897 &ndash; September 13, 1940) was an American poet from a [[Boston Brahmin]] background. He belonged to the poetic ''avant garde'' of the 1930s and was a [[Marxist]], a founder-member of the [[Trotskyist]] [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]] in the United States. He was [[bisexual]].<ref name="glbtq">{{citation|title=American Writers on the Left |year=2002 |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/am_mawriters_left.html |periodical=[[glbtq.com]] |accessdate=December 20, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308205729/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/am_mawriters_left.html |archivedate=March 8, 2014 }}</ref> He died after being struck by an automobile at the intersection of [[Beacon Street|Beacon St.]] and [[Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)|Massachusetts Avenue]] in the early morning hours of September 13, 1940. His ''Selected Poems'' was published posthumously a few months later, with an introduction by his friend [[R. P. Blackmur|R.P. Blackmur]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blackmur |first=Richard P. |title=Outsider at the Heart of Things: Essays |date=1989 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252015793 |pages=1}}</ref>


Wheelwright was the son of Boston architect [[Edmund M. Wheelwright]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wald |first=Alan M. |title=The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan |date=1983 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=9780807815359 |pages=40}}</ref> He was descended from the 17th-century clergyman [[John Wheelwright]] on his father's side and the 18th-century Massachusetts governor [[John Brooks (governor)|John Brooks]] on his mother's side. He studied at [[Harvard University]] but left without a degree in 1920.<ref>{{Cite book |last=MacNiven |first=Ian S. |title="Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions |date=2014 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9780374712433}}</ref> He then studied at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] before practising as an [[architect]] in [[Boston]]. From 1930 to 1932, Wheelwright worked with [[Lincoln Kirstein]] and [[Walker Evans]] to photograph Victorian architecture in Boston.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weissman |first=Terri |title=The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action |date=2011 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520266759 |pages=115}}</ref> He was editor of the magazine ''Poetry for a Dime''.<ref>Paul Christensen, 'Wheelwright, John (Brooks)', ''20th Century American Literature'', Macmillan, 1980, pp.619-620</ref>
Wheelwright studied at [[Harvard University]].


==External links==
==Works==
* (ed.) ''A History of the New England Poetry Club'', 1932.
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*[http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wheelwright/bio.htm Biography]
* ''Rock and Shell: Poems 1923-1933'', 1933.
* ''Mirrors of Venus: A Novel in Sonnets, 1914-1938'', 1938.
* ''Political Self-Portrait'', 1940
* ''Selected Poems'', 1941.
* ''Collected Poems'', ed. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, 1972.


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 21:19, 24 September 2024

John Brooks Wheelwright
Born(1897-09-09)September 9, 1897
Milton, Massachusetts U.S.
DiedSeptember 13, 1940(1940-09-13) (aged 43)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationPoet
Period1923–1940
Literary movementModernism, Socialist

John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (September 9, 1897 – September 13, 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic avant garde of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the United States. He was bisexual.[1] He died after being struck by an automobile at the intersection of Beacon St. and Massachusetts Avenue in the early morning hours of September 13, 1940. His Selected Poems was published posthumously a few months later, with an introduction by his friend R.P. Blackmur.[2]

Wheelwright was the son of Boston architect Edmund M. Wheelwright.[3] He was descended from the 17th-century clergyman John Wheelwright on his father's side and the 18th-century Massachusetts governor John Brooks on his mother's side. He studied at Harvard University but left without a degree in 1920.[4] He then studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before practising as an architect in Boston. From 1930 to 1932, Wheelwright worked with Lincoln Kirstein and Walker Evans to photograph Victorian architecture in Boston.[5] He was editor of the magazine Poetry for a Dime.[6]

Works

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  • (ed.) A History of the New England Poetry Club, 1932.
  • Rock and Shell: Poems 1923-1933, 1933.
  • Mirrors of Venus: A Novel in Sonnets, 1914-1938, 1938.
  • Political Self-Portrait, 1940
  • Selected Poems, 1941.
  • Collected Poems, ed. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, 1972.

References

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  1. ^ "American Writers on the Left", glbtq.com, 2002, archived from the original on March 8, 2014, retrieved December 20, 2007
  2. ^ Blackmur, Richard P. (1989). Outsider at the Heart of Things: Essays. University of Illinois Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780252015793.
  3. ^ Wald, Alan M. (1983). The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan. University of North Carolina Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780807815359.
  4. ^ MacNiven, Ian S. (2014). "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374712433.
  5. ^ Weissman, Terri (2011). The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action. University of California Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780520266759.
  6. ^ Paul Christensen, 'Wheelwright, John (Brooks)', 20th Century American Literature, Macmillan, 1980, pp.619-620
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