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Robert (White) Creeley | | Variant Name: |
Robert Creeley, Robert White Creeley | | Birth Date: |
May 21, 1926 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Robert (White) Creeley
10,619 words, approx. 35 pages
 For the second half of this century, Robert Creeley's work as an innovative poet has occupied a singular place in postwar American letters. The contributions of Creeley, with Charles Olson, were instrumental, through Projective Verse, to the definition... summary from source:
Biography of Robert (White) Creeley
3,842 words, approx. 13 pages
Robert White Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, and after the death of his father, he moved at the age of four with his mother and sister to nearby West Acton. His childhood was spent in this rural neighborhood, and at fourteen he entered... summary from source:
Biography of Robert (White) Creeley
3,806 words, approx. 13 pages
"None of the so-called Black Mountain Writers wrote in a literally similar manner. That is, Olson's modes of statement are certainly not mine, nor are they Duncan's, nor Denise Levertov's--and so on. What was, then, the basis for our company? I think,... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Robert Creeley Information
2,718 words, approx. 9 pages
 Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts and grew up in Acton, Massachusetts. He was raised by his mother with one sister, Helen, and lost his left eye at the age of four. He attended Holderness School. He entered Harvard University in 1943, but...
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 Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Creeley
07/01/2004: 22,071 words, approx. 74 pages Although Robert Creeley once remarked that he was "given to write poems" (Collected Essays 496), he began with the expectation that fiction would be his primary preoccupation. Recently his output of creative prose has slowed to a trickle, but in the early decades of... summary from source:
Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Creeley: A Biography
07/01/2002: 318 words, approx. 1 pages Ekbert Faas. Robert Creeley: A Biography. With Maria Trombacco. Univ. Press of New England, 2001. 513 pp. $35.00. Ekbert Faas has chosen an audacious style for the first biography of one of the greatest American poets. Faas focuses on the poet's first forty... summary from source:
 AP News At 50, 'Road' still inspiring the young
8/31/2007: 1,914 words, approx. 6 pagesManya Callahan, manager of the Barnes & Noble Downtown store, sees them all the time, young and old, looking for books by Lowell's most famous citizen."They're usually wearing backpacks and they kind of have a sense of adventure about them," she says. "They walk inside,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
2,342 words, approx. 8 pages
Like Henry James' early but decisive 'The Madonna of the Future', [Creeley's 'Three Fate Tales'] are explanatory, illustrative, cautionary, an attempt to reach down to the basis for his stance, with nothing more primary, nothing more strange, taken or not, than just that, the self, which is single. And I make it such, so call it, because it is so. I only call it what it is.
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Critical Essay by Terry R. Bacon
1,972 words, approx. 7 pages
"I begin where I can and end when I see the whole thing returning." These words, from Robert Creeley's preface to The Gold Diggers …, express his early sense of writing, a sense predicated on the notion of evolving form. Implicit in his statement is the concept of poetic form as a function of an organic condition of structure—framed by an indeterminate point of departure and a somewhat more determinate point of termination, the latter somehow dependent upon the perception ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Richard Howard
1,122 words, approx. 4 pages
Diligent, strong and good are surely the epithets which attach to Robert Creeley's aspiring character …, for this poet shows, in his poetry at least, none of the distractions pressed upon him by the tendentious praise of both Leslie Fiedler and Hugh Kenner …, by the imprimatur of William Carlos Williams and the impertinence of John Simon …, and most distracting of all, by the clamorous mimicry of his juniors…. (pp. 143-44) [Immensely out in the open now] Creeley yet contin...
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