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| Name: |
James Dickey | | Birth Date: |
February 2, 1923 | | Death Date: |
January 19, 1997 | | Place of Birth: |
Buckhead, Georgia, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, novelist |
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 Biography of James (Lafayette) Dickey
10,824 words, approx. 36 pages
 In what he calls a "snapshot" of James Dickey in The Writer's Voice (1973), George Garrett has written, "Legends, myths, fables and fabliaux, anecdotes, quotations from, hard and funny sayings, true and false, wheel and flock about him, a shrill... summary from source:
 Biography of James Dickey
9,094 words, approx. 30 pages
Glory came early in James Dickey's career: six years after his first collection appeared in Poets of Today VII (1960), he won the 1966 National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965); five years after that, his novel Deliverance (1970) and its movie... summary from source:
Biography of James (Lafayette) Dickey
8,348 words, approx. 28 pages
James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in order to live as fully as possible. Immersed in death encounters, he formulated a poetic vision dramatizing his heightened sense of renewal to experience, to life. At the same...
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 James Dickey Quotes
137 words, approx. 1 pages
 James Dickey ( 2 February 1923 – 19 January 1997 ) was a popular American poet and novelist. Unsourced I don’t mean to sell the poet so long or at such great length, but I do this principally because the world doesn’t esteem the poet very much....
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 James Dickey Information
549 words, approx. 2 pages
James Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was a popular United States poet and novelist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and his wife, Maibelle Swift Dickey. He attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's...
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 AP News New DVD releases: `Death Proof'
9/17/2007: 920 words, approx. 3 pagesSelected home-video releases:"Death Proof"Quentin Tarantino's part of "Grindhouse," the double-feature he made with Robert Rodriguez, comes to DVD in a two-disc set, featuring an extended and unrated version of the film that runs about 30 minutes longer than the theatrical release. Kurt Russell stars as...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates
16,237 words, approx. 54 pages
In the following essay, Oates studies Dickey's collections from Into the Stone, to Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy, addressing his development and principal poetic themes, and highlighting Dickey's unique expression of man's instinctual savagery.
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Critical Essay by Henry Hart
12,547 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Hart investigates the ways in which Dickey's wartime experiences affected his poetic sensibility.
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