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Gay Wilson Allen (1903–1995)

Author of Waldo Emerson

23+ Works 337 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Includes the names: Gay Allen, Gay W. Allen, Gay Wilson Allen, Gay Allen Wilson

Works by Gay Wilson Allen

Waldo Emerson (1981) 78 copies

The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman (1955) 35 copies

Literary criticism, Pope to Croce (1962) 33 copies

William James (1967) 31 copies

A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman (Reader's Guides) (1970) 28 copies

St. John de Crevecoeur: The Life of an American Farmer (1987) 22 copies

American poetry (1965) 20 copies

Walt Whitman Handbook (1946) 19 copies

Walt Whitman (1961) 19 copies

Melville and His World (A Studio book) (1971) 13 copies

The New Walt Whitman Handbook (1975) 10 copies

Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa Whitman Series) (1995) 7 copies

William James - American Writers 88: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1967) 5 copies

American Prosody (2013) 4 copies

Carl Sandburg - American Writers 97: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (University of Minnesota… (1972) 4 copies

The Merrill studies in Leaves of grass (Charles E. Merrill program in American literature) (1972) 2 copies

Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman, A 1 copy

Walt Whitman As Man, Poet, And Legend 1 copy

William James : A Biography 1 copy

Jurgen and Faust 1 copy

Bees, Wasps and Ants of Kent: A Provisional Atlas (2009) 1 copy

Jurgen and Faust: From Heaven Through the World to Hell 1 copy

Melville and his world 1 copy

Associated Works

Leaves of Grass (1855) — Introduction, some editions — 9,976 copies

New World Writing: Eighth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1955) — Contributor — 7 copies

Walt Whitman's Poems. Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Charles T. Davis (Evergreen Books. no. 161.) (1955) — Editor — 4 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1903
Date of death: 1995-08-06
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: North Carolina, USA
Education: Duke University (A.B., A.M.)
University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.)
Occupations: biographer

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Waldo Emerson by Gay Wilson Allen

Good long biography of Emerson. Very interesting.

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Statistics

Works: 23
Also by: 3
Members: 337
Popularity: #70,620
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 36
Touchstones: 1

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Guide to the Gay Wilson Allen Papers, 1801-1988

Gay Wilson Allen, Biographer, Dies at 92

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