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Under twenty-five : Duke narrative and verse, 1945-1962 / edited by William Blackburn

Author
Blackburn, William, 1899-1972
Additional Titles
Duke narrative and verse, 1945-1962
Published
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1963.
Charlotte, N.C. : Heritage Printers, Inc.
Physical Description
240 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Styron, William, 1925-2006

Availability

PS508.C6B56 PS508.C6B56 1963
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Contents
Writers under twenty-five / William Styron -- The dove shoot / Mac Hyman -- Two poems / Guy Davenport -- The onlooker / Elinor Divine -- The ivory star / Constance Mueller -- Mayday in boy and girl / Robert Nordan -- Water in a dry place ; Three poems / James Applewhite -- Silence and slow time / Alan Bradford -- Cover every track / Barbara Barksdale -- Island summer / Thomas R. Atkins -- Waiting ; Ten poems / Wallace Kaufman -- The saints in Caesar's household / Anne Tyler -- Mr. Do and the nursery school / James Carpenter -- End of a journey / George Young -- Inheritance ; January ; Ten poems / Fred Chappell -- A chain of love / Reynolds Price.
Summary
An anthology of the best sketches, stories, and poems written by Duke undergraduates since 1945. This follows a previous anthology, One and Twenty, published in 1945.
Subject(s)
Collection
Penn State Authors Collection.
Note
Includes William Styron's introductory essay Writers under twenty-five (pages 3-8).
Rare Books copy 1: hardcover, in tan paper dust jacket; ink signature "William Blackburn" on front flyleaf.
Rare Books copy 2: paperback issue.
Binding Information
Bound in grey cloth boards; title stamped in green on spine. Also issued (later?) in paperback (ISBN 0822303493)
Source of Acquisition
Rare Books copies 1-2: Gift of James L. W. West III; 2014.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Like Styron, the contributors to this collection were then-current or former students from Professor William Blackburn's creative writing classes at Duke University.
Reviewed/Cited In
West, J.L.W. William Styron, C 7
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