Raymond Nelson

(1969)
Arts & Sciences Professor
American Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Stanford, 1969
M.A. Stanford, 1967
B.A. Connecticut, 1965

Books

  • ed., Harlem Gallery and Other Poems by Melvin Tolson. University of Virginia, 1999.
  • Kenneth Patchen and American Mysticism. University of North Carolina, 1984.
  • Van Wyck Brooks: A Writer's Life. Dutton, 1981.

Articles

  • "Harlem Gallery: An Advertisement and User's Manual," Virginia Quarterly Review (1999).
  • "Babylonian Frolics: H. L. Mencken and The American Language," American Literary History (1999)
  • "The Fitful Life of Weldon Kees," American Literary History (1989).

Honors

  • Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America (1994)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1971-1972