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Howard Futhey Brinton
1872–1941
A poet from Pennsylvania whose work captured the strain of wartime conscience, he is best remembered for The Pacifist, and other poems (1918). His writing brings together moral unease, public feeling, and the everyday pressures of the early twentieth century.
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The Pacifist, and other poems
by Howard Futhey Brinton
About the author
Howard Futhey Brinton (1872–1941) was an American poet from West Chester, Pennsylvania. Reliable catalog and public-domain sources connected with his work identify him as the author of The Pacifist, and other poems, published in 1918, and later library and literary records continue to list that book as his best-known work.
The title poem reflects the atmosphere of World War I and suggests a writer deeply interested in questions of conscience, conflict, and public duty. Although detailed biographical information about his life appears to be limited in the sources available online, records consistently place his life between September 28, 1872, and April 25, 1941.
Because so little has survived in easily verifiable form, Brinton feels a bit elusive today. That makes his poetry all the more interesting: it offers a small but vivid window into how one early twentieth-century American writer responded to his time.