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Gilbert H. Muller is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York.

Bevat de naam: Gilbert Muller

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Werken van Gilbert H. Muller

The Short Prose Reader (1979) 114 exemplaren
Major Modern Essayists (1990) — Redacteur — 51 exemplaren
To the Point (2nd Edition) (2004) 24 exemplaren
The McGraw-Hill reader (1982) 14 exemplaren
Nightmares and Visions (1972) 9 exemplaren

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USA
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Port Washington, New York, USA
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City University of New York
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Gilbert H. Muller is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York. He is the author of Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Grotesque and New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction, and has also written critical biographies of the African American writers Chester Himes and John A. Williams. He lives in Port Washington, New York―close to William Cullen Bryant’s estate, Cedarmere. [retrieved 6/1/2021 from Amazon.com]

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This is a biography composed as it should be. It tells the life chronolgically, discussing poems as Bryant wrote them and telling of his life as editor and traveller. I decided to read Bryant's biography because I have long revelled in his poem "I Cannot Forget With What Fervent Devotion" which includes the felicitous lines:
'Mong the deep-cloven fells that for ages had listened
To the rush of the pebble-paved river between,
Where the kingfisher screamed and gray precipice glistened,
All breathless with awe have I gazed on the scene;

The only flaw in the book is that this poem is not mentioned!
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