Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry

Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Bridges.

About the author

Donald J. Greiner holds the chair of Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where he also serves as associate provost and dean of undergraduate academic affairs. The author of more than a dozen books on such writers as Frederick Busch, Robert Frost, and John Hawkes, he is the preeminent scholar of John Updike, about whom he has published three books. Greiner has won both the University Award for Outstanding Teaching and the University Award for Distinguished Research at the University of South Carolina. He lives in Columbia.

Summary

In a comprehensive introduction to Dickey's remarks, Donald J. Greiner evaluates the relevance of the writer's often sharply worded opinions. The volume brings to life class sessions planned and delivered soon after Dickey took up full-time residence at the University of South Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: James Dickey
• Assisted by: Donald J Greiner (Editor), Donald J. Greiner (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9781570035289
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-528-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 712 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies