About
American poet and author who wrote literary and political commentary and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944. He is most famous for a poem entitled "Ode to the Confederate Dead."
Before Fame
He attended Vanderbilt University, and he later taught at Kenyon College.
Trivia
He and TS Eliot were literary contemporaries and acquaintances.
Family Life
He had three children with his wife Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Associated With
He wrote a biography of Jefferson Davis.
