Carruth, Hayden

From Philosopedia

Carruth, Hayden (1921— ) Carruth is a poet who was editor of Poetry (1949—1950). He was recipient of the Vachel Lindsay prize (1954), the annual Brandeis University poetry award (1959), the Harriet Monroe prize of the University of Chicago (1960), the Carl Sandburg prize (1963), and numerous others, including a grant of $10,000 in 1967 from the National Foundation on Arts and Humanities. Among Carruth’s many works are The Crow and the Heart (1959); After the Stranger (1965); The Bloomingdale Papers (1975); and Paragraphs (1975). Asked in 1994 about humanism, Carruth responded to the present author,

You may enroll me among the “non-theists,” if you wish. My writing contains many explanations of my position though I have never written expressly on this topic. Perhaps the best explanation is in my essay, “The Nature of Art,” Ohio Review (#49). The essay will be included in my forthcoming Selected Essays and Reviews.

{WAS, 7 December 1994}