Paul Engle - (1908-1991)
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Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa
I. Biography
Paul Engle was born on October 12, 1908 in Cedar Rapids and has been a lifelong citizen of Iowa. He attended public schools in Cedar Rapids and later Coe College. He graduated in 1931 and later that year began attending the University of Iowa. Later Engle also attended Columbia University and Merton College. In 1933 Engle won the Poetry's Century of Progress prize for
"American Remembers" from American Song. After publication of at least three of his works, Engle returned to the University of Iowa and helped to continue the publication of American Prefaces , a literary magazine. He also took part in the founding of the Poetry and Fiction Workshops at the University of Iowa. Engle retired from the university in 1977.
II. Literary Works
"One Slim Feather" (1932), also published as "Worn Earth"
"American Song" (1934)
"Break the Heart's Anger" (1936)
"Corn" (1939)
"Always the Land" (1941)
"West of Midnight" (1941)
"American Child, Sonnets for My Daughters" (1945, 1956)
"The Word of Love" (1951)
"For the Iowa Dead" (1956)
"Poems in Praise" (1959)
"Midland" (1960)
"Prairie Christmas" (1960)
"Golden Child" (1962)
"An Old Fashioned Christmas" (1964)
"A Woman Unashamed" (1965)
"Embrace" (1969)
This essay was submitted by a student of Rod Cameron, a teacher at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa.