Robert Morgan

Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt (Shepherd College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 3 Oct 1944
Activity 1967-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Story-writer

Other

Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Morgan's Works

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Robert Morgan is fond of quoting Hollis Summers, who has said, “The point of a story is always the point beside the point.” “Peripheral vision”, as Morgan sees it, is what is important in a poem or story. “It is not so much what is said,” Morgan records in his critical collection

Good Measure

, “as what is evoked, is enacted, by language” (137). Certainly, the vision evoked in Morgan’s writing and the “spots of time” that he has created in such poems as “Cellar”, “Blowing Rock”, “Mowing”, and in the novels –

The Hinterlands

(1994),

The Truest Pleasure

(1995)

, Gap Creek

(1999)

, This Rock

(2001)

and

Brave Enemies

(2003) – have been shaped by the “living voices” that he grew up with on a farm near Zirconia, North Carolina, and by the mysteries of the…

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Citation: Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey. "Robert Morgan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 February 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11695, accessed 26 November 2024.]