Albert Gelpi is the Coe Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Stanford University.^[1] He taught literature, particularly poetry, there between 1968 and 2002.

Gelpi also wrote a trilogy of literary criticism involving American poetry:^[2]

• The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet
• A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950
• American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word

Gelpi was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 for his work in American literature.^[3] His books are held in libraries worldwide.^[4] He earned degrees from Loyola University New Orleans (BA), Tulane University (MA), and Harvard University (PhD).

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