![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His misbehavior at public events, his disorderly personal life, and his self-destructive alcoholism only enhanced his public image as a masculine, burly poet and man of American letters. As an artist, critic, and public celebrator of poetry, Dickey was a highly visible literary figure during the last half of the century. Dickey’s most important work was as a poet, but he wrote criticism, screenplays, essays, and three novels, one of which, Deliverance, was a best-seller and the basis of a widely praised film. His poetry is intensely confessional, largely apolitical, and directly focused on the interactions of the individual with the natural as well as the technologically transformed modern world. He began to reach artistic maturity in the 1950s, and his work is typically considered alongside that of a number of other well known mid-century poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman. ![]() Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein made him a distinctive figure in contemporary American writing. His strongly visceral, sensory-laden descriptions and a poetic style that deviated from the intellectualism of such high modernist poets as T. James Dickey ranks, along with Conrad Aiken, as one of the two most important Georgia poets in the twentieth century. ![]()
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