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Stanley Plumly (1939–2019)

Author of Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

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About the Author

Stanley Ross Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio on May 23, 1939. He received a bachelor's degree from Wilmington College in Ohio in 1961 and a master's degree from Ohio University in 1968. He taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of show more Houston before coming to the University of Maryland in 1985. He founded the graduate program in creative writing there before retiring 2018. His first collection of poetry, In the Outer Dark, was published 1970. His collections of poetry included Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000, Orphan Hours, Against Sunset, and Old Heart: Poems. He was Maryland's poet laureate from 2009 to 2018. He edited the Ohio Review and the Iowa Review and several anthologies of poetry. He also wrote nonfiction books including Posthumous Keats, The Immortal Evening, and Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime. He died of complications from multiple myeloma on April 11, 2019 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Best American Poetry 2000 (2000) — Contributor — 213 copies
The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 103 copies
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributor — 92 copies
The Best American Poetry 2020 (2020) — Contributor — 42 copies
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contributor — 32 copies
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contributor — 32 copies
The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (2016) — Contributor — 11 copies
Robert Penn Warren: A Collection of Critical Essays (1980) — Contributor — 5 copies
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Hmmm... hard to review this one. It was different, interesting. I wish the focus had been solely on the conversation between artist Haydon and poets Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but it kept jumping around from the "immortal evening" when all were present to other places and times and artists who seemed to have nothing to do with that evening. It was incredibly repetitious, yet left many questions unanswered. I felt the book gave me the same info (a subjective POV of the author) repeatedly but left out so many realities. Interesting facts, but you had to dig for them.… (more)
 
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DonnaMarieMerritt | 1 other review | Jul 15, 2015 |
These are the kinds of poems I do not like. Awkward constructions, twisted odd metaphors, minimal punctuation, dense imagery all prevent me from enjoying this book of poetry. Unfortunately, the poems he read were not in any of the books he had for sale – at least none in the ones I bought sound even vaguely familiar.

Maybe the poet, reading this kind of poetry, knows where the commas should be. But the casual reader is lost. I read a couple I mildly liked, but most of these were less than enjoyable. 2 stars

--Jim, 12/31/10
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rmckeown | 1 other review | Dec 31, 2010 |
Get away from the cellphone,the ipod, and even your computer: now,pause,read,breathe.
 
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