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Albert Gelpi

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Albert Gelpi is the Coe Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Stanford University.[1] He taught literature, particularly poetry, there between 1968 and 2002.

Gelpi also wrote a trilogy of literary criticism involving American poetry:[2]

  • The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet
  • A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950
  • American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word

Gelpi was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 for his work in American literature.[3] His books are held in libraries worldwide.[4] He earned degrees from Loyola University New Orleans (BA), Tulane University (MA), and Harvard University (PhD).

References

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  1. ^ "Albert Gelpi | Department of English". english.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  2. ^ Axelrod, Steven Gould (March 2017). "American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word by Albert Gelpi | Twentieth-Century Literature | Duke University Press". Twentieth-Century Literature. 63 (1): 94–101. doi:10.1215/0041462X-3833523. S2CID 164411532. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Albert J. Gelpi".
  4. ^ Emily Dickinson : the mind of the poet (Book, 1971) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 2143558. Retrieved 2018-01-17 – via worldcat.org.