Poet (13-Dec-1927 — 25-Mar-1980)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

David C. Dougherty. James Wright. Twayne. 1987. 160pp.

Andrew Elkins. The Poetry of James Wright. University of Alabama Press. 1991. 273pp.

Frank Graziano; Peter Stitt. James Wright: A Profile. University of Michigan Press. 1988. 152pp.

George S. Lensing. Four Poets and the Emotive Imagination: Robert Bly, James Wright, Louis Simpson and William Stafford. Louisiana State University Press. 1976. 223pp.

Saundra Maley (editor). A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2005. 633pp.

Saundra Rose Maley. Solitary Apprenticeship: James Wright and German Poetry. Edwin Mellen Press. 1996. 710pp.

William H. Roberson. James Wright: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 1995. 334pp.

Dave Smith (editor). The Pure Clear Word: Essays on the Poetry of James Wright. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 1982. 260pp.

Kevin Stein. James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man: Constancy and Transition in the Work of James Wright. Ohio University Press. 1989. 240pp.

Anne Wright (editor). The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press. 1986. 116pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

5. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.849)

6. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.1569-71)

7. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.1130)

8. Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry (p.345)

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications