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Allen, Gay Wilson was born on August 23, 1903 in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Henry and Ethel (Garren) Allen.
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The Pochmann-Allen anthology Masters of American Literature was from its first publication in the late 1940’s until recently a widely-used textbook in its field. The long historical essays giving the backgrounds to American literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth century and the extensive author-essays preceding the works made the Pochmann-Allen volumes a reference work in colleges and universities when it was not adopted as a text. Furthermore, the authors’ knowledge and judgment in concentrating on the masters” from Cotton Mather to Stephen Crane, as is here done, were amply demonstrated: in spite of great scholarly and critical activity since the volumes were published, new discoveries have not essentially affected reputations and values during the past two decades, and the authors’ essays on the writers discussed remain authoritative. The author-essays are here brought together, preceded by the historical introductions (now combined into one), and are made available once again in this handbook form. In its new, brief form the book thus affords a reliable, comprehensive, and richly detailed guide to American literature.
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Allen, Gay Wilson was born on August 23, 1903 in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Henry and Ethel (Garren) Allen.
AB, Duke University, 1926. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1928. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1934.
D.Lit., Duke University, 1975. D.Lit., University Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
Instructor in English, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio., 1929-1931; instructor in English, Shurtleff College, Alton, Illinois, 1934-1935; instructor in English, State University, Bowling Green, Ohio., 1935-1946; Professor of English, New York University, 1946-1969. Teacher summer schools Harvard, U., Duke U., University Texas, U. Hawaii. Visiting professor Harvard University, 1969-1970, Emory University, 1979.
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Fellow Society of America Historians. Member International Association University Professors English, Modern Language Association (Lowell prize 1982), Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: P.E.N.
Married Evie Allison, July 15, 1929.