John Gould Fletcher, 1886-1950. American poet & critic
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Finding-Aid for the Fletcher Papers [00198]Collection Description
Papers, 1928-1962
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Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and educated (1903–7) at Harvard, Fletcher traveled throughout Europe and became a leader of the imagists in England. His early collections of poetry are Irradiations: Sand and Spray (1915) and Goblins and Pagodas (1916). In later works Fletcher turned from free verse to more traditional forms. These include The Black Rock (1928), Selected Poems (1938, Pulitzer Prize), and The Burning Mountain (1946). Many of his poems reflect his youth in the Southwest. For more on the life of John Gould Fletcher, see his autobiography, Life Is My Song (1937).
The small Fletcher Collection includes two letters of Fletcher from 1928 and one letter from Beverley Githens Dresbach to Mr. Richard Church, concerning Fletcher’s book, The Squirrel Called Rufus. There are also clippings from the Ozark Mountaineer, a photograph of Fletcher with Glen Ward Dresbach, and a review of The Black Rock, by Richard Church.
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Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950. American poet and
critic