11 Facts About Gustav Davidson

Gustav Davidson was an American poet, writer, and publisher.

Gustav Davidson was a one-time secretary of the Poetry Society of America.

Gustav Davidson was born on December 25,1895, in Warsaw, Prussia.

Gustav Davidson worked for the Library of Congress between 1938 and 1939 and became executive secretary of the Poetry Society of America from 1949 to 1965.

Gustav Davidson is today best remembered as the author of A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels, a popular work detailing the types of angel classes and their roles.

Gustav Davidson wrote articles, such as on encounters with angels, in the parapsychological Tomorrow magazine of medium Eileen J Garrett.

Gustav Davidson wrote a dramatic adaptation of Melmoth the Wanderer in collaboration with playwright Joseph Koven.

Gustav Davidson edited A Half Century of Sonnets, and the 1950 collection In Fealty to Apollo for the Poetry Society of America, an organization for which he served as secretary.

Gustav Davidson headed Fine Editions Press and established and ran the Davidson Printing Corporation, both of which specialized in the publication of contemporary poetry.

Beyond the confines of poetry, Gustav Davidson wrote First Editions in American Juvenilia and Problems in Their Identification and other works on bibliography and book collecting.

Gustav Davidson was active as a translator and a book designer.