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Hayden Carruth was born on 3 August, 1921, is an American poet and literary critic. Discover Hayden Carruth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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1921

Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist.

He taught at Syracuse University.

Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut.

1939

He graduated from Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, New York with the class of 1939 as vice president of the senior class; he was credited with the "prettiest hair."

1943

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1943 and an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948.

1949

Prior to his affiliation with Harper's, he served as editor-in-chief of Poetry (1949–1950) and as advisory editor of The Hudson Review for twenty years.

He was awarded a Guggenheim and the NEA fellowships.

1953

While institutionalized in White Plains, New York from 1953 to 1954, he befriended and subsequently mentored Gordon Lish throughout his adolescence.

He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years.

1972

After teaching at Johnson State College (poet-in-residence; 1972–1974) and the University of Vermont (adjunct professor; 1975–1978), Carruth was a tenured professor of English at Syracuse University in the graduate creative writing program beginning in 1979; in this capacity, he taught and mentored many younger poets (including Brooks Haxton and Allen Hoey) before taking emeritus status in 1991.

He resided with his wife, fellow poet Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth, near the small central New York village of Munnsville.

He wrote for over sixty years.

Carruth died from complications following a series of strokes.

Hayden Carruth was the son of Gorton Veeder Carruth a journalist and newspaper editor, and Margery Carruth.

His interest in poetry started early due to his father.

Carruth wrote more than 30 books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, essays, a novel and two poetry anthologies.

1977

From 1977 to 1988, he was the poetry editor of Harper's Magazine.

1990

Other awards with which he was honored included the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the 1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Vermont Governor's Medal and the Whiting Award.

Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth's poems are informed by his political radicalism and sense of cultural responsibility.

1992

In 1992 he was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for his Collected Shorter Poems and in 1996 the National Book Award in poetry for his Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey.

Shortly after the debut of Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, he also won the $50,000 Lannan Literary Award.

2001

His later titles include the 2001 collection of poems Doctor Jazz and a 70-minute audio CD of him reading selections from Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey and Collected Shorter Poems. His Last Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) combines poems written toward the end of his life with the concluding poems from twenty-six of his previous volumes.

2018

Among his influences, Carruth particularly admired 18th century poet Alexander Pope, lauding "Pope's rationalism and pandeism with which he wrote the greatest mock-epic in English literature"

Many of Carruth's best-known poems are about the people and places of northern Vermont, as well as rural poverty and hardship, addressing loneliness, insanity, and death.

One of his most celebrated poems is "Emergency Haying".

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