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The last romantic

a poet among publishers : the oral autobiography of John Hall Wheelock

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An edition of The last romantic (2002)

The last romantic

a poet among publishers : the oral autobiography of John Hall Wheelock

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"During the forty-six years that John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978) - an influential literary figure and respected poet - worked at Charles Scribner's Sons, the company was the leading literary publishing house in America. During this golden era, Scribners included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, Alan Paton, George Santayana, and Thomas Wolfe among its authors.

As the editor who assisted and then succeeded the legendary Maxwell Perkins as editor in chief, Wheelock worked with some of the nation's most acclaimed - and difficult - authors. Wheelock's record of his remarkable life and career offers an unparalleled account of New York publishing and the American literary scene during its richest period.".

"Wheelock's memoir extends beyond the inner workings at Scribners to his own career as a poet and his friendships with a wide circle of literary figures, including Conrad Aiken, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, and Elinor Wylie. Wheelock's dictated autobiography traces his writing of poetry from schoolboy beginnings, through a Harvard apprenticeship that led him to publish his first collection in collaboration with Van Wyck Brooks, to his mature years as an esteemed figure in American letters.

In addition to documenting the profession of authorship in America, Wheelock's recollections provide a social history of the affluent society of his boyhood and youth before and after the turn of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
266

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The last romantic: a poet among publishers : the oral autobiography of John Hall Wheelock
2002, University of South Carolina Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-249) and index.
Edited from Wheelock's own edited transcription of interviews conducted for the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University in 1967.

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Columbia
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.52, B
Library of Congress
PS3545.H33 Z47 2002, PS3545.H33Z47 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 266 p. :
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3554297M
Internet Archive
lastromanticpoet0000whee
ISBN 10
157003463X
LCCN
2002008026
OCLC/WorldCat
49690126
Library Thing
9439720
Goodreads
404016

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