| William Ellery Leonard: The Professor and the Locomotive God Contributor(s): Reinitz, Neale (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611475880 ISBN-13: 9781611475883 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $111.87 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2013009704 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.32" W x 9.25" (1.09 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |