Armour, Richard

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Richard Armour (1906-1989) was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty books. Armour was born in San Pedro, California. His father was a druggist, and Armour's autobiographical Drug Store Days recalls his childhood in both San Pedro and Pomona. He attended Pomona College and Harvard University, where he studied with the eminent Shakespearean scholar George Lyman Kittredge and obtained a Ph.D. in English philology. He eventually became Professor of English at Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version


"In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial."

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"I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone."

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"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world."

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"It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then."

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