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Denton Welch
Book by Phillips, Robert S.
189 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1974
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Robert S. Phillips
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American poet, author and editor, usually publishes under the name Robert Phillips.
Robert S. Phillips was born 1938 in Milford, Delaware and is the author or editor of some 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres and publishes in numerous journals. A graduate of Syracuse University's creative writing program, he is currently (May 2007) a professor of English at the University of Houston; he was also director of the Creative Writing Program there from 1991 to 1996. His honors include a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal, and Texas Institute of Letters membership. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moore Scholar at the University of Houston.
[Portions of biographical sketch taken from Mr. Phillips' faculty home page at the University of Houston, http://www.uh.edu/cwp/faculty/phillip..., retrieved 11 May 2007.]
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American poet, author and editor, usually publishes under the name Robert Phillips.
Robert S. Phillips was born 1938 in Milford, Delaware and is the author or editor of some 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres and publishes in numerous journals. A graduate of Syracuse University's creative writing program, he is currently (May 2007) a professor of English at the University of Houston; he was also director of the Creative Writing Program there from 1991 to 1996. His honors include a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal, and Texas Institute of Letters membership. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moore Scholar at the University of Houston.
[Portions of biographical sketch taken from Mr. Phillips' faculty home page at the University of Houston, http://www.uh.edu/cwp/faculty/phillip..., retrieved 11 May 2007.]
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November 16, 2024
During the past couple of years, I have "discovered" the British author Denton Welch, who died mid-20th century. I have enjoyed his diaries and his first novel. Recently, I came across a secondhand book of biography and literary criticism by Phillips published in 1974 (a discard from a library in Wayne, Nebraska). The book is light on biography and heavy on literary criticism. The criticism portion is, in my view, inconsistent and much too heavy on perceived symbolism in Welch's works. As Welch's works were primarily biographical, including his novels, perhaps he just wrote for the pleasure of the story. Further, Welch was homosexual, and the author downplays the role of Welch's longtime companion as a mere "friend." But this could be merely a product of the times the book was written. All in all, I look forward to reading the remaining novels and stories of Welch -- which are not easy to find, as most are available only on the secondary market. This book by Phillips, however, I certainly could have passed by.
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