Louis O. Coxe

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Louis O. Coxe was born in 1918 in Manchester, New Hampshire and was educated in the same state at St. Paul's School in Concord. He took his B.A. from Princeton University in 1940 and subsequently served during World War II in the Naval Reserve. The year of his discharge, 1946, he was married and began his teaching career at his Alma mater. He was Briggs-Copeland Fellow at Harvard from 1948-1949 and from 1949-1955 he taught at the University of Minnesota. Coxe went to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1956 where he remained except for excursions to Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the University of Aix-Marseilles, France, until his death in 1993, a victim of Alzheimer's disease.

Coxe, always a formal poet, published his first book, The Sea Faring and Other poems in 1947. This publication was followed by The Second Man and Other Poems eight years later, in 1955; The Wilderness and Other Poems (1958); The Middle Passage (1960); The Last Hero and Other Poems (1965)' Nikal Seyn, Decoration Day: A Poem and a Play (1966), Passage Selected Poems 1943-1978, and The North Well (1985). Coxe was the author also of three other plays and four nonfiction books.