William Ellery Leonard
Subtitle: The Professor and the Locomotive-God
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781611475883
Subjects: Poets, biography; Authors, american; College teachers; Translators
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 ' 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."--Publisher's website.