The New Oxford Book of American Verse
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The New Oxford Book of American Verse by Richard Ellmann
An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.Richard Ellmann earned international acclaim as a scholar, English literature instructor, critic, and biographer over the course of a long and illustrious career. Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. His magesterial life of James Joyce has been largely recognized as the best literary biography of the century. He attended Yale University and Trinity College in Dublin. He was a professor of English literature at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College. His James Joyce (National Book Prize, 1959) was preceded by Yeats: The Man and the Masks and The Identity of Yeats, and was followed by--among other highly appreciated books--two volumes of Joyce letters, Eminent Persons, and James Joyce: The
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195020588 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195020588 |
| Title | The New Oxford Book of American Verse |
| Author | Richard Ellmann |
| Series | Oxford Books Of Verse Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1976-10-21 |
| Number of pages | 1132 |
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