Background
Clayton, Sarah Turner was born on October 20, 1938 in Kewanee, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Earl O. and Louise Elizabeth (Cottrell) Turner.
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The Angelic Sins of Jones Very (Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance, V. 1)
(America's Transcendentalists wanted to speak as gods, but...)
America's Transcendentalists wanted to speak as gods, but few were so religiously exalted as Jones Very - nor did they want to be. Very lived the life of a mystic, speaking alternately as a nineteenth-century Jeremiah and the new American Messiah, for less than two years. During the period of his transfiguration, he wrote verse that was powerful and pure. It was not widely read, perhaps even suppressed, for while Jones Very's deep, if narrow, poetry fascinated his contemporaries, his life appalled them. His exaltation was his sin; the verse that grew out of his exaltation was angelic. To complicate the modern reader's response to Very's small corpus of magnificent verse is the larger body of mediocre poetry that he wrote after he «recovered» from his experience. As the millennium approaches, his ecstatic verse speaks more strongly than ever before. This book tells why.
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Sarah Turner Clayton
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Bachelor, University Illinois, 1960. Master of Arts in Education, Northern Arizona University, 1987. Doctor of Philosophy, Georgia State University, 1993.
Career
English teacher, LeRoy (Illinois) H.S., 1960-1961; English teacher, Knightstown (Indiana) H.S., 1965-1968; community coordinator, Hancock County Schools, Hawesville, Kentucky, 1974-1975; English teacher, Show Low (Arizona) H.S., 1979-1987; part-time instructor English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, since 1989; postdoctoral associate, Georgia State University, 1995-1996. Writing center advisor Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1989-1996, lower division student representative, 1991-1992.
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The Angelic Sins of Jones Very (Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance, V. 1)
(America's Transcendentalists wanted to speak as gods, but...)
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The Angelic Sins of Jones Very (Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance, V. 1)
Membership
City council woman Hawesville City Council, 1975-1976. Elder Decatur Presbyterian Church, 1993-1996, chair Christian Education Council, 1994-1996, coordinator bible interpreters, 1994-1995. President Joy Luck Investment Club, since 1998.
Member Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers English, Philanthropic and Educational Organization Sisterhood of Alpha Delta Pi (president since 1997), Phi Kappa Phi.
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Married James Melvin Clayton, April 2, 1961. Children: Laura Jane Clayton Shields, Joseph Scott.
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1960
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1987
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1993
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1960 - 1961
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1965 - 1968
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1974 - 1975
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1979 - 1987
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1989