William Ellery Leonard : the professor and the locomotive god / Neale Reinitz.

Author
Reinitz, Neale, 1923-2012 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.
Description
xx, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    "William Ellery Leonard was an eccentric poet, professor, and critic whose romantic ideals were set against a world whose aesthetics were fast turning away from his own. He lived a life marked by both success and dramatic failure, both personally and professionally. His first ' suicide would haunt him and mark one of his greatest poems, the sonnet sequence Two Lives; his translations of Lucretius and Beowulf stood as hallmarks of the craft for decades after they were published; and his political satires written in response to the University sphere he lived and worked in remain as effective today as they once were."--Publisher's website.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Prologue: Sixteen St. Luke's Place
    • The Young Professor 1906-1907
    • Marriage and Tragedy 1909-1911
    • A Son of New England 1876-1898
    • Choosing a Career 1898-1906
    • The Wound and the Bow 1911-1913
    • The Translator's Experience and Art 1914-1916
    • The World Outside 1914-1920
    • From Heroic Poetry to Personal Drama 1920-1923
    • The Lives of Two Lives 1925
    • Professor and Patient 1922-1925
    • The Locomotive-God 1926-1931
    • A Scholar's World 1920-1934
    • First Love, Last Poem 1932-1942
    • A Quiet, Peaceful Life 1940-1944
    • Epilogue: "Famed for Phobia".
    ISBN
    • 9781611475883 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 1611475880 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2013009704
    OCLC
    829988766
    RCP
    H - S
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