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Howard Futhey Brinton
1872–1941
A Pennsylvania poet with Quaker roots, he is best remembered for The Pacifist, and Other Poems, a 1918 collection that reflects the moral tensions of wartime. Though little biographical detail survives in easily accessible sources, his work still offers a glimpse of an early 20th-century writer wrestling with conscience, conflict, and public life.
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The Pacifist, and other poems
by Howard Futhey Brinton
About the author
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1872, he belonged to an old Chester County family and later appeared in Yale's class records as a member of the class of 1898. Available records also show that he died on April 25, 1941, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
His most clearly documented literary work is The Pacifist, and Other Poems, published in 1918. The title alone suggests the concerns that shaped his writing during the First World War era, and modern library and public-domain records have helped keep that collection in circulation.
Because reliable online sources about his life are sparse, much of his personal story remains hard to confirm in detail. What does come through is the outline of a poet whose surviving work was serious-minded, timely, and engaged with questions of war and principle.