Louis O. Coxe
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Louis Osborne Coxe (April 15, 1918 – May 25, 1993) was an American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor who was largely unnoticed in lyric poetry, according to the Academy of American Poets for his "long, influential, quiet achievement, largely unrecognized." Billy Budd's dramatic interpretation, which opened on Broadway in 1951, was certainly best known for his dramatic interpretation.
Early life and education
Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1918, but raised in Salem, Massachusetts, (where his family had lived since 1640), Coxe was educated at St. Paul's School. He graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and wrote his senior thesis on Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Career
Coxe served in the United States Navy during World War II, commanding the United States Navy. During the Northern Solomon Islands campaign and the annexation of Guam and the envasion of Saipan-Tinian (and later the United States) (PC-549 in the South Pacific Theater) and the envasion of Saipan-Tinian (and later the United States) the Germans (and later the United States). PC-1195), an experience that would influence a large portion of his poetry. He married Edith Winsor, granddaughter of Boston financier Robert Winsor, after leaving active service in 1946 and began teaching at Princeton. He served as a Briggs-Copeland Fellow at Harvard University from 1948 to 1954, and from 1949 to 1955, he taught at the University of Minnesota. After 11 years of Alzheimer's disease, Coxe returned to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he remained (except for brief appointments at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the University of Aix-Marseilles, France) as head of the English department until his death in 1993.
Awards
- Donaldson Awards Best Play, 1951
- Outer Critics Circle Award Best Play, 1951
- Maine State Award, 1972
- National Endowment for the Arts creative writing grant, 1977
- Academy of American Poets Fellowship, 1977