Author: Donaldson, Scott,
Title: Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott.
Description: Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, (1972). G in G DJ ex-library. Back ep partially removed. Biography of Scott (1910-1968) which describes the predicament of the artist in contemporary. American society. Scott suffered deeply from what he considered to be a lamentable lack of recognition during his lifetime. He published ten books which earned wide critical acclam & awards. Author draws on Scott's private journals, wide correspondence & interviews as well as his poetry. One poem depicts Scott and his sister gathering horsechestnuts from in front of the rich people's homes & seeing two children in the window laughing at them. It expresses he and his family's reverence for the rich.

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