In the Canyon

Baltimore: Bay Press, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. SCARCE. Elliott Coleman (1906-1980) graduated from Wheaton College in 1928, and after teaching for a number of years, he studied theology at Princeton, Oxford, and the General Theological Seminary in New York. Coleman was ordained an Episcopal Deacon in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, while also working for two publishers, Henry Holt & Co. and Doubleday & Co. He joined The Johns Hopkins University in 1945 to reorganize the freshman writing course. Subsequently, he founded Hopkins' Department of Writing, Speech and Drama, the predecessor to The Writing Seminars. As a scholar, Coleman focused on the literary criticism of Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. He edited a volume of the poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelley and translated the poems of Pierre Emmanuel, Georges Poulet, and Alfredo Rizzandi. Coleman was also a poet in his own right and published more than a dozen volumes of poetry. "In the Canyon" is one of his later poetry volumes, published in 1976, four years before his death. Very good in blue illustrated side staples wraps with white title to front cover. Rubbing and wear to spine and covers. Small scuff mark to front cover and small hole from staple to rear cover. Clean, bright interior. 31 pages. POE/011513.