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Languages : en
Pages : 570
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The Delphian Quarterly
Author: Wallace Stegner
Author: Jackson J. BensonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803225374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909?93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West?writing more than two dozen works of history, biography, essays, and fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the bestselling Crossing to Safety. Jackson J. Benson?s Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work is the first full-dress biography of this celebrated ?Dean of Western Writers.? Drawing on nearly ten years of research and unlimited access to Stegner?s letters and personal files, Benson traces the trajectory of Wallace Stegner?s life from his birth on his grandfather?s Iowa farm to his prominence as an award-winning writer, critic, historian, environmental activist, and teacher, and as founder of Stanford?s creative writing program. But Benson?s book is as much a consideration of Stegner?s literary legacy as it is a retelling of his life. His critical reassessment of the entire body of Stegner?s work argues convincingly for his subject?s place in the literary canon?not merely as a ?regional? Western writer but straightforwardly as one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.
The Delphian Society
Author: Delphian SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages :
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Delphian Text
Author: The Delphian SocietyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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The New-York Quarterly
Author: Ezra Pound
Author: J. J. WilhelmPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042985
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This third and final volume of Wilhelm's life of Ezra Pound commences with Pound's departure from Paris at the height of his writing career for Italy, where he hoped to find a quieter life, and it takes him to his death in 1972. It tells how he settled in Rapallo and soon found Mussolini's fascism to be amenable to his own political and economic ideas, especially during the dark days of the Great Depression. As Italy girded itself for World War II, Pound was almost haphazardly drawn into the web, and he foolishly agreed to broadcast on Radio Rome for the Duce, even after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. When Italy fell to the Allies, Pound was put first into a dreadful American detention camp at Pisa and then was flown to Washington to be tried for treason. He escaped conviction on grounds of insanity, but he was then remanded to St. Elizabeths Hospital, where he languished for twelve years. Despite the incarcerations, Pound produced during this time some of his most magnificent poetry, including The Pisan Cantos and numerous excellent translations from the Chinese and Greek. He also heavily influenced an entire generation of poets ranging from Robert Lowell to Allen Ginsberg. With the help of Archibald MacLeish and Robert Frost, Pound was eventually freed in 1958. He returned to Italy, where he lived for a time with his wife and daughter. During the final years of his life, he eventually returned to live with his aged lover, Olga Rudge, in Venice and Rapallo. He died in Venice in 1972 and is buried next to Igor Stravinsky, whose work his own strongly resembles, since they both fought for liberation from traditional forms.
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Delphian Text
Author: The Delphian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781479415519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Delphian Society promoted the education of women through group work circa 1928. They published several volumes of books containing an outline of human knowledge for the use of conversation. promoted the education of women through group work circa 1928. They published the 19-volume Delphian Text containing an outline of human knowledge for conversational use. Part Three covers the Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome.
Delphian Text
Author: The Delphian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781479415595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Delphian Society promoted the education of women through group work circa 1928. They published several volumes of books containing an outline of human knowledge for the use of conversation. promoted the education of women through group work circa 1928. They published the 19-volume Delphian Text containing an outline of human knowledge for conversational use. Part Fourteen discusses the stories of the Egyptians, the Ancient Hebrews, the Greeks, and begins the stories of the Romans.
First Year Delphian Chapters
Author: Delphian SocietyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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