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- Abbott, Craig
- ISBN
- 9780875803760
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0875803768
ISBN-13
9780875803760
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59363655
Product Key Features
Book Title
Forging Fame : the Strange Career of Scharmel Iris
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, Literary, American / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-012441
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Jaw-dropping in places, Abbott's book entertains beyond a constant escalation of Iris's audacity and narcissism. There is also much wit., "The research is painstakingly thorough and utterly original. A valuable and distinctive piece of work."-C. D. Blanton, University of California, Berkeley "Once picked up, cannot easily be put down."- The Midwest Book Review "Jaw-dropping in places, Abbott's [book] entertains beyond a constant escalation of Iris's audacity and narcissism. There is also much wit."- The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The research is painstakingly thorough and utterly original. A valuable and distinctive piece of work."--C. D. Blanton, University of California, Berkeley "Once picked up, cannot easily be put down."-- The Midwest Book Review "Jaw-dropping in places, Abbott's [book] entertains beyond a constant escalation of Iris's audacity and narcissism. There is also much wit."-- The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jaw-dropping in places, Abbott's book entertains beyond a constant escalation of Iris' audacity and narcissism. There is also much wit., ""The research is painstakingly thorough and utterly original. A valuable and distinctive piece of work."--C. D. Blanton, University of California, Berkeley "Once picked up, cannot easily be put down."--The Midwest Book Review "Jaw-dropping in places, Abbott's [book] entertains beyond a constant escalation of Iris's audacity and narcissism. There is also much wit."--The Chronicle of Higher Education"
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
811/.4 B
Table Of Content
Preface 1. Youth of Genius, 1889-1913 2. New Poet, 1913-1922 3. Apparitional Schemer, 1923-1939 4. Nonpublishing Poet, 1940-1949 5. Resurrected Genius, 1950-1953 6. International Poet in Residence, 1954-1959 7. Autobiographer, 1950s and 1960s 8. Local Celebrity, 1960-1967 Notes Index
Synopsis
If poets are "liars by profession," Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures, among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, and Woodrow Wilson. "Of poets writing today, there is no greater," states a preface, signed by W. B. Yeats, to one of Iris's volumes of poetry--although at the time of publication Yeats had been dead for several years. Examining Iris' grandiose fantasy, Craig Abbott exposes his forgery, plagiarism, and imposture. As a child, Iris had emigrated from Italy with his mother, who arrived in Chicago in pursuit of the American dream. Driven by ambition and narcissism, he began publishing poetry in 1905, participated in the Chicago Renaissance, and continued publishing until two years before his death in 1967. With energy and persistance, the minor Chicago poet insinuated himself among the great and famous and simulated a life of literary stardom. Iris's self-projection as a neglected poetic genius often was designed to translate into monetary value, while confirming his role behind the scenes of twentieth-century literary history. Granting Iris the attention he haplessly courted all his life, Abbott discovers a forger of fame whose story provides a commentary, often parodic, on the place of poetry in his time., If poets are \u201cliars by profession, \u201d Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures--among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, and Woodrow Wilson. \u201cOf poets writing today, there is no greater, \u201dstates a preface, signed by W.B. Yeats, to one of Iris s volumes of poetry--although at the time of publication Yeats had been dead for several years. As a child, Iris had emigrated from Italy with his mother, who arrived in Chicago in pursuit of the American dream. Driven by ambition and narcissism, he began publishing poetry in 1905, participated in the Chicago Renaissance, and continued publishing until two years before his death in 1967. With energy and persistance, the minor Chicago poet insinuated himself among the great and famous and simulated a life of literary stardom. Iris s self-projection as a neglected poetic genius often was designed to translate into monetary value, while confirming his role behind the scenes of 20th-century literary history. Examining Iris s grandiose fantasy, Abbott exposes his forgery, plagiarism, and imposture. Granting Iris the attention he haplessly courted all his life, Abbott discovers a forger of fame whose story provides a commentary, often parodic, on the place of poetry in his time., If poets are "liars by profession," Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures--among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, and Woodrow Wilson. "Of poets writing today, there is no greater,"states a preface, signed by W.B. Yeats, to one of Iris's volumes of poetry--although at the time of publication Yeats had been dead for several years. As a child, Iris had emigrated from Italy with his mother, who arrived in Chicago in pursuit of the American dream. Driven by ambition and narcissism, he began publishing poetry in 1905, participated in the Chicago Renaissance, and continued publishing until two years before his death in 1967. With energy and persistance, the minor Chicago poet insinuated himself among the great and famous and simulated a life of literary stardom. Iris's self-projection as a neglected poetic genius often was designed to translate into monetary value, while confirming his role behind the scenes of 20th-century literary history. Examining Iris's grandiose fantasy, Abbott exposes his forgery, plagiarism, and imposture. Granting Iris the attention he haplessly courted all his life, Abbott discovers a forger of fame whose story provides a commentary, often parodic, on the place of poetry in his time.
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PS3517.R5Z55 2007
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