Historia histrionica: an historical account of the English-stage

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Garland Pub., 1974 - Performing Arts - 52 pages
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James Wright
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About the author (1974)

James Wright's work is typified by a humanitarian tenderness, compassion, and a keen sense of man's alienation. He wrote of his efforts: "I have written about the things I am deeply concerned with---crickets outside my window, cold and hungry old men . . . a feeling of desolation in the fall, some cities I have known." His work presents an unusual vision of middle America: the decayed and yet beautiful landscapes of train yards, bars, and red-light districts in Minneapolis. Stylistically, Wright moved from a traditional rhymed and metered verse, drawing on the techniques of the now classic modernists---Robinson, Masters, Frost, and even Thomas Hardy---to experimentalism in form and language. His later poems exhibit a certain delicacy, yet retain the colloquial sense of the native American idiom. Born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, Wright attended Kenyon College and the University of Washington. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Vienna, he was awarded a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim grant, the Oscar Blumenthal Award, and a Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems in 1972.

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TitleHistoria histrionica: an historical account of the English-stage
Volume 38 of The English stage: attack and defense, 1577-1730
Volume 38 of The English Stage Series
AuthorsJames Wright, John Downes
Editionreprint
PublisherGarland Pub., 1974
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 4, 2008
Length52 pages
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