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George Garrett : A Critical Biography

Book information

Publisher
Texas Review Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781937875138, 9781937875008
LCC
PS3557.A72 .C533 2013
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2879060 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
216\0
Time added
2023-08-05 16:01:24

Description

Considering George Garrett’s life and work in the continuum of American literary history, it is perhaps most profitable to place him in the tradition of the now exceedingly rare Southern “man of letters”—he (or she) who embraces and produces literature in all its complexity and in multiple forms (novels, short stories, poems, plays, criticism, translation, editing, and so on). This kind of Southern writer, stretching back to Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps finds its best modern examples in the Nashville-based writers of the 1920s and 1930s. Chronologically, Garrett, born in 1929, probably was the most variously gifted Southern writer to arrive on the scene following Robert Penn Warren. Indeed, it is in such company that his life and work belong.

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