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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reinitz, Neale, 1923-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944.

Leonard, William Ellery.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

College teachers--United States--Biography.

College teachers.

United States.

Translators--United States--Biography.

Translators.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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. For decades after they were published, his translations of Lucretius and Beowulf stood as hallmarks of the craft, and his political satires written in response to the university sphere he lived and worked in remain as effective today as they once were. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Young Professor, 1906-1907 1

2 Marriage and Tragedy, 1909-1911 11

3 A Son of New England, 1876-1898 31

4 Choosing a Career, 1889-1906 45

5 The Wound and the Bow, 1911-1913 61

6 The Translator's Experience and Art, 1914-1916 73

7 The World Outside, 1914-1920 87

8 From Heroic Poetry to Personal Drama, 1920-1923 103

9 The Lives of Two Lives, 1925 117

10 Professor and Patient, 1922-1925 133

11 The Locomotive-God, 1926-1931 151

12 A Scholar's Life, 1920-1934 163

13 First Love, Last Poem, 1932-1942 177

14 A Quiet, Peaceful Life, 1940-1944 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611475883

1611475880

OCLC:

829988766