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Gelpi, Albert Joseph was born on July 19, 1931 in New Orleans. Son of Albert Joseph and Alice Marie (Delaup) Gelpi.
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In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American identities and argues that the conditions of American life and culture have pushed our major poets into a debate between intellect and passion. Gelpi provides thorough readings of major American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor up to the modernists, often using contemporary poets (Rich, Ginsberg, Duncan) as frames for those predecessors. Originally published in 1975 in hardcover only by Harvard University Press
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This volume presents the complete correspondence between two of the most important and influential American poets of the postwar period. The almost 500 letters range widely over the poetry scene and the issues that made the period so lively and productive. But what gives the exchange its special personal and literary resonance is the sense of spiritual affinity and shared conviction about the power of the visionary imagination. Duncan and Levertov explore these matters in rich detail until, under the stress of dealing with the Vietnam War in poetry, they discover deep-seated differences in the religious and ethical convictions underlying their politics and poetic stance. The issues that drew them together and those that drove them apart create a powerful personal drama with far-reaching historical and cultural significance. The editors have provided a critical Introduction, full notes, a chronology, and a glossary of names.
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In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. This large historical argument is developed through monographic chapters on the poets which include close readings of their major poems. Comprehensive in scope and subtle in its analysis, Gelpi's book promises to be one of the major studies of American poetry for years to come.
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Gelpi, Albert Joseph was born on July 19, 1931 in New Orleans. Son of Albert Joseph and Alice Marie (Delaup) Gelpi.
Bachelor of Arts, Loyola University, New Orleans, 1951; Master of Arts, Tulane University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1962.
Assistant professor, Harvard University, 1962-1968; associate professor, Stanford University, 1968-1974; professor American literature, Stanford University, since 1974; Wm. Robertson Coe professor American literature, Stanford University, since 1978; chairman American studies program, Stanford University, 1980-1983, 94-; associate dean graduate study and research, Stanford University, 1980-1985; chairman English department, Stanford University, 1985-1988.
(In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions a...)
(In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of Amer...)
(In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of Amer...)
(In this book Albert Gelpi traces the emergence of America...)
( This volume presents the complete correspondence betwee...)
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Served with United States Army, 1951-1953. Member Modern Language Association, American Literature Association.
Married Barbara Charlesworth, June 14, 1965. Children: Christopher Francis Cecil, Adrienne Catherine Ardelle.