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John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950)

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John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886 -May 10, 1950) was an Imagist poet (the first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize), author and authority on modern painting. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family. After attending Phillips Academy, Andover Fletcher went on to show more Harvard University from 1903 to 1907, when he dropped out shortly after his father's death. Fletcher's poetic works included: The Black Rock (1928), Selected Poems (1938), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1939, South Star (1941), and The Burning Mountain (1946). In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, Life is My Song, and in 1947 he published Arkansas, a history of his home state. Fletcher suffered from depression, and on May 20, 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas. Fletcher is buried at historic Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock. A branch of the Central Arkansas Library System is named in his honor. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1782) — Translator, some editions — 1,743 copies, 21 reviews
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contributor — 479 copies, 1 review
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization) (1930) — Contributor — 352 copies
Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) (1972) — Contributor — 187 copies, 2 reviews
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contributor — 172 copies, 1 review
Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (1999) — Contributor — 147 copies, 1 review
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Contributor — 138 copies, 2 reviews
The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry (Southern Classics Series) (1991) — Contributor — 120 copies
Meditations of a Solitary Walker (Classic, 60s) (1782) — Translator, some editions — 114 copies, 2 reviews
Twentieth Century American Poetry (1944) — Contributor — 109 copies, 2 reviews
The Imagist Poem (1963) — Contributor, some editions — 105 copies
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Contributor — 35 copies
An American Omnibus (1933) — Contributor — 34 copies
Some Imagist Poets An Anthology (2004) — Contributor — 10 copies, 1 review
American Poems 1776-1922 (2013) — Contributor — 8 copies
Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology (2015) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Dance Over Fire and Water (1926) — Translator, some editions — 7 copies
Jean Sans Terre (1936) — Translator, some editions — 5 copies
War Poems from The Yale Review (1919) — Contributor — 5 copies, 1 review
The true travels and adventures of Captain John Smith: Into Europe, Asia, Africa and America from anno Dom. 1593 to 1629 (The new universal library) (2007) — Introduction, some editions — 5 copies
Imagist Anthology 1930 — Contributor — 4 copies
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950, Volumes 1-2 (1984) — Contributor — 1 copy
America arraigned! (1928) — Contributor — 1 copy

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