It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Frederick Morgan, a longstanding friend of and contributor to The New Criterion. He will be well known to our readers: his poems appeared often in our pages, though not as often as we might have liked.

Fred Morgan managed to have three distinguished literary careers. The first was as an editor and (using the term in the highest sense) literary impresario, someone who brings literary talent to the attention of the public. In 1948, shortly after having been graduated from Princeton, Fred started The Hudson Review with his college friends Joseph Bennett and William Arrowsmith, the well-known classicist and translator. The moment had found its men. The world was bursting with literary talent and The Hudson Review—that is, Fred Morgan and his colleagues—had the wit to discern and the charm to attract some of the best. The roster of contributors to the quarterly in its ...

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