courses in 19th- and 20th-century American literature and the history of American English and American dictionaries.
Among his scholarly work, he edited and annotated a book of Melvin Tolson's poetry, "Harlem Gallery and Other Poems." Nelson also published "Van Wyck Brooks: A Writer's Life" and "Kenneth Patchen and American Mysticism," which won the Poetry Society of America's prestigious Melville Cane Award as the best critical book of 1984 on American poetry. He also wrote numerous articles on other American writers, including Herman Melville, Chester Himes and Weldon Kees.
from University of Virginia Today: Ray Nelson, Former Arts & Sciences Dean, Dies
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