WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD by Neale Reinitz ( 9781611475883 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD
THE PROFESSOR AND THE LOCOMOTIVE-GOD

By:

Neale Reinitz

Format:

Hardback

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£87.00

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ISBN 10:

1611475880

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9781611475883

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Publisher:

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

20 June, 2013

Pages:

232

Description:

This biography explores the life and works of William Ellery Leonard, a poet of the early twentieth century who has largely fallen from public and academic awareness. His life was marked by heartache, loss and reward, and was plagued by an extreme phobia of locomotives.

Synopsis:

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 wife's 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.

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4 Halftones, black and white

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Imprint:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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