Gelpi, Albert

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GELPI, Albert

GELPI, Albert. American, b. 1931. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Harvard University, Assistant Professor, 1962-68; Stanford University, CA, Associate Professor, 1968-74, Professor, 1974-78, Coe Professor of American Literature, 1978-. Ed., Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Publications: Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet, 1965; The Poet in America: 1950 to Present, 1973; The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet, 1975; A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance 1910-1950, 1988; Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis, 1998; The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, 2003; Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader, 2003. EDITOR: (with B. Charlesworth Gelpi) Adrienne Rich's Poetry, 1975 as Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose, 1993; Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism, 1986; Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism, 1993; (with afterword) The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems of William Everson, 1994; (with R.J. Bertholf) The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, 2003. Address: Dept of English, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.