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

Gelpi also wrote a trilogy of literary criticism involving American poetry:

• 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. His books are held in libraries worldwide. He earned degrees from Loyola University New Orleans (BA), Tulane University (MA), and Harvard University (PhD).

References

1. "Albert Gelpi | Department of English". english.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
2. Axelrod, Steven Gould (March 2017). "American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word by Albert Gelpi | Twentieth-Century Literature | Duke University Press". Twentieth-Century Literature. 63 (1): 94–101. doi:10.1215/0041462X-3833523. S2CID 164411532. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Albert J. Gelpi".
4. Emily Dickinson : the mind of the poet (Book, 1971) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 2143558. Retrieved 2018-01-17 – via worldcat.org.

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