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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren 1905-89, American novelist, poet, and critic, b. Guthrie, Ky., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. 1925; M.A., Univ. of California 1927; B.Litt., Oxford 1930. At Vanderbilt he became associated with John Crowe Ransom and the group of Southern agrarian poets who made the Fugitive (1922-25)... Read more |
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John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom 1888-1974, American poet and critic, b. Pulaski, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He is considered one of the great stylists of 20th-century American poetry. His verse, elegant and impersonal, is concerned with the breakdown of traditional... Read more |
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Horace Gregory
Horace Gregory 1898-1982, American poet and critic, b. Milwaukee, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1923. His poetry is noted for its dramatic structure and penetrating insights into the harshness of contemporary life. Among his volumes of poetry are Chelsea Rooming House (1930), Poems, 1930-1940 ... Read more |
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Malthusian
Malthusian Trap BIBLIOGRAPHY The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus was born in Surrey in 1766 and died in 1834. He was the son of a clergyman and one of eight children. Malthus was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later became a professor of history and political economy at the East... Read more |
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Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael , 1919-2001, American film critic, b. Petaluma, Calif. Possessed of an extensive knowledge of the technical aspects of moviemaking and a feisty, pop-inflected style, Kael was noted for her provocative, passionate, and tough-minded film criticism. An extremely influential figure, she... Read more |
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Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon 1802-81, American Congregational minister, b. Detroit, Mich. He served for 41 years as pastor of the First Church of New Haven, one of the leading Congregational churches in the country. Bacon was a noted antislavery leader, although not an abolitionist. His Slavery Discussed in... Read more |
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu
Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu 1720-1800, English author, one of the bluestockings . She was noted for her wit and beauty, and her London literary salon was frequented by Johnson, Walpole, Burke, and other eminent men. She wrote An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769), defending... Read more |
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Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett 1835-1906, English librarian and author. From 1851 until his retirement in 1899 he was connected with the British Museum, which he served with great distinction. Besides writing voluminous essays, biographies, and novels, he discovered hitherto unpublished poems by Shelley ( Relics... Read more |
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe 1860-1936, American editor, critic, and poet, b. Chicago. In 1912 she founded Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, which paid and encouraged both established and new poets. Monroe's literary reputation is based on her editorship of this important magazine. She introduced to readers such... Read more |
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment and Reclamation.
...Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment...Essays and unpublished Roberts materials...Introduction and Notes on the Selections...Time of Man, Robert Penn Warren states that...this book ... |
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Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.(Book Review)
...seeking out obscure notes, sketches, letters, unpublished manuscripts in...such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph...apart. King notes Walcott's life...commentary on Robert Penn Warren to confirm his...quotes ... |
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Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.(Book review)
...seeking out obscure notes, sketches, letters unpublished manuscripts in...poets such as Robert Lowell, Joseph...apart. King notes Walcott's life...commentary on Robert Penn Warren to confirm his...quotes ... |
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