Coblentz, Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) 1896-1982 creator text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats A writer of lyric verse describes his experiences as a writer and editor, anthologist and poet. (This summary is from Harvard Library.) "My Life in Poetry" by Stanton A. Coblentz is a memoir written in the mid-20th century. It traces a poet’s lifelong devotion to verse, blending personal history with reflections on craft, candid editorial skirmishes, and a firm defense of traditional poetics against fashionable formlessness. Expect vivid anecdotes of apprenticeship, newsroom verse-at-speed, hard-won publications, and the burden of a severe eye condition that paradoxically deepened his focus. The opening of the memoir explains why the author sets the record straight about his life and his poetic principles, dismissing myths and staking a clear stand for form, clarity, and continuity with the past. He recalls a childhood inspired by his mother’s readings of Longfellow, the grief that sparked his first juvenile verses, and the solace he found in Shelley and in Bryant’s anthology. Early efforts bring laborious practice, naïve long poems, a small school prize, a bruising rejection from Leonard Bacon, a flood of editorial refusals, and a brush with a vanity publisher he wisely cannot afford. He describes the joy and trance of composition, a few early publications and misprints, a prize quatrain that opens doors to reviewing, and an invitation from a San Francisco editor. A disastrous series of eye operations leaves him permanently light-sensitive, forcing life changes but also teaching him to compose poems mentally. He widens his reading, writes a master’s thesis, denounces wrecking-ball modernisms, and studies with Bacon and Witter Bynner. Newspaper work follows—satirical animal rhymes and poems-to-order, then the threadbare Overland Monthly—before he heads to New York, where loneliness, small publications, and unhelpful introductions finally give way to a first steady reviewing assignment and a visit to Edwin Markham that promises further opportunities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-12-06 Tom Trussel, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Originally published: New York: Bookman Associates, 1959 Poetry Coblentz, Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur), 1896-1982 Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography PS New York: Bookman Associates, 1959 59014624 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015031222246 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77413 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015031222246 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77413 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134807.0 77413