Echoing Wordsworth's theory of poetry, he calls the poet "the intensified man," believing strongly in the pursuit of "wholeness." With that aggressive hold on reality, Dickey has been a football player in high school and at Clemson College, a trackrecord holder at Vanderbilt, a hunter with bow and arrow, a guitarist (both twelve- and sixstring) with a flair for bluegrass music, a World War II air man, and a training officer in the Korean War. Other than poetry and fiction, his occupations have included teaching, lecturing, acting (the redneck sheriff in
Deliverance), and a six-year stint with advertising firms in Atlanta and New York. In 1961, having received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dickey went to Europe, leaving advertising behind forever.
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