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Gleckner, Robert Francis was born on March 2, 1925 in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adam F. and Frieda A. (Froehlich) Gleckner.
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Large 8vo. x, 403 pp, acknowledgments, I. Spenser and Blake; II. The Torments of Love and Jealousy; III. Roads of Excess; IV. Calling and Naming; V. The Characters in Spenser's Farie Quene, I. VI. The Characters in Spenser's Faire Queene, II. VII. The Characters in Spenser's Faire Queene, III. VIII. Spenser's spenser and Blake's Spenser; Appendix: A. Spenser and Blake's Thel; B. Blake, Bunyan, Pilgrimages, and Allegory; C. Allegory and Typology; D. Spenser's Ireland and Blake's Thel; B. Blake, Bunyan, Pilgrimages, and Allegory; C. Allegory and Typology; D. Spenser's Ireland and Blake's Erin; notes, index. First Edition, 1985. Cream cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "Robert Gleckner seeks to determine just how much vision Blake found in Spenser. And since he adheres to the basic Frye postulate of using Blake's entire canon in his analysis, the synoptic prose description of A Vision of the Last Judgment is one of his primary texts. Vision or Imagination is a Representation of what Eternally Exists. Blake and Spenser is a subtle and highly unified example of contextual criticism at its best. True to the value of the New Critical enterprise, however, Gleckner's anti-system rhetoric does not negate the often brilliant readings in the book. And he certainly breaks new ground in his treatment of the Spenser painting, combining a thorough understanding of Blake's poetry with a sure grasp of the mechanics of his art."
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Thomas Gray (1716-1771) had the misfortune to be a poet at a time when English poetry was struggling with an aching question: how to preserve continuity with the great tradition of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, yet avoid being merely echoes of them. A deep admirer of Milton, Gray emulated not only the great poet's subjects and diction, but his life as well. Although Gray turned to Milton for reminders of the heights to which all poetry might strive, he felt alternately energized and paralyzed by the sublimity of Milton's example. But Gray had an ally in his contest with his mighty predecessor. His friend and former schoolmate, Richard West, was also well educated, a devotee of Milton, and a poet. Gray Agonistes is the first book to examine in detail the intersection in Thomas Gray's life and poetry of Milton's career and achievement and Gray's intense homosexual relationship with Richard West (and, to a lesser extent, with Horace Walpole and Thomas Ashton, all of whom banded together at Eton as the Quadruple Alliance). In all of Gray's poetry Gleckner discovers sites of intense and heroic struggle--with Milton's ghost and with Gray's need to articulate his passionate attachment to West. After West's early death in 1742, Gray's foreboding became anguish, and he became the poet of Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
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educator English language professional
Gleckner, Robert Francis was born on March 2, 1925 in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adam F. and Frieda A. (Froehlich) Gleckner.
Bachelor, Williams College, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1954.
Instructor English, Johns Hopkins University, 1949-1951;
editor, Research Studies Institute, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1951-1952;
instructor English, U. Cincinnati, 1952-1954;
instructor English, University of Wisconsin, 1954-1957;
assistant, then associate professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1957-1962;
Professor of English, University of California at Riverside, 1962-1978;
department chairman, University of California at Riverside, 1962-1966;
lecturer extension division, University of California at Riverside, 1962-1964, 74;
divisional dean humanities, University of California at Riverside, 1968-1970;
dean, College Humanities, 1970-1975;
faculty research lecturer, College Humanities, 1973;
Professor of English, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, since 1978;
chairman English department, Duke U., 1982;
director graduate studies in English, Duke U., 1986-1988. Main speaker University of California at Los Angeles expert conference humanities, Lake Arrowhead, California, 1964, University of California, Berkeley, 1976. Speaker U. North Carolina Continuing Education Conference, Asheville, 1982.
Lecturer American Blake Foundation, 1981, U. Tulsa, University Texas, U. Washington, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, U. New Mexico, Memphis State University, U. Maryland., Louisiana State University, U. Tennessee, Skidmore College, Siena College. Manuscript reader journals, university presses. Delegate American Association Higher Education meeting, 1963, 69, 72.
Consultant National Endowment for Humanities, 1975-1977, unites states department Education, since 1994.
( Thomas Gray (1716-1771) had the misfortune to be a poet...)
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Member of advisory board directors American Blake Foundation, 1970-1988. Served to First lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945. Member American Committee Byron Society (charter), Keats-Shelley Association, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, International Byron Society, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, American Society 18th Century Studies, N. American Society Study of Romanticism, Association Literature Scholars and Critics, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi.
Married Glenda J. Karr, February 7, 1946. Children: Jeffrey M., Susan F.