Career
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Poet, essayist, novelist, and short- story writer. President of Harvard's Advocate while in college; placed on probation for irregular class attendance in his senior year at Harvard and left for his first trip to Europe, 1911; made several trips abroad between 1916 and 1922 and met Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Amy Lowell; at this time he also became a reviewer for New Republic, Poetry, Chicago Daily News, Poetry Journal, and Dial (for which he was a contributing editor, 1917-18); wrote "Letters from America" to Athenaeum and London Mercury; settled in England, 1922 ( "I didn't stay all the time," he says. "I went and came."); returned to America, 1925; tutor in English at Harvard University, 1925-26; under pseudonym Samuel Jeake, Jr., was London correspondent to New Yorker, 1934-36; consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress, 1950-52; appointed Poet Leureate of Georgia, 1973.
