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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 5/31/1978

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)

The Modern American Long Poem

FAIN: FB-13118-77

T. Hunter Wilson
Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT 05344-9888)

Through a careful, analytical reading of long poems such as William Carlos Williams's Paterson and T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," to develop a critical methodology for dealing with modern long poems, to investigate the organizing principles and the functions of these poems.