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My Everett Emerson

My Everett Emerson Over the years I learned that my first meeting with Everett Emerson was characteristic of his generosity, and thus, I suspect, of many readers' experiences with him. It was at the MLA convention in 1978, where Charles Scruggs and I shared the Norman Foerster Prize for the previous year. I was still a youngster in the profession and awed by the whole scene, and particularly by people who edited journals like the strikingly yellow-covered Early American Literature, which every few months I eagerly awaited in the stacks of my university's library. Right after the presentation Everett introduced himself and told me that he had been one of the judges, and that my piece on Thoreau was one of the best things on that author he had read in years. Immediately putting me at ease, he asked if I wanted to meet Gay Wilson Allen, who had received the Hubbell Medal. Of course I did! And then Everett invited me to a party in his suite where, he explained, I would meet many early Americanists. He was not exaggerating, and a few weeks before MLA every year after that, I received a photocopied invitation to this legendary reception hosted http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

My Everett Emerson

Gura, Philip F.
Early American Literature , Volume 38 (1) – Apr 1, 2003
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Over the years I learned that my first meeting with Everett Emerson was characteristic of his generosity, and thus, I suspect, of many readers' experiences with him. It was at the MLA convention in 1978, where Charles Scruggs and I shared the Norman Foerster Prize for the previous year. I was still a youngster in the profession and awed by the whole scene, and particularly by people who edited journals like the strikingly yellow-covered Early American Literature, which every few months I eagerly awaited in the stacks of my university's library. Right after the presentation Everett introduced himself and told me that he had been one of the judges, and that my piece on Thoreau was one of the best things on that author he had read in years. Immediately putting me at ease, he asked if I wanted to meet Gay Wilson Allen, who had received the Hubbell Medal. Of course I did! And then Everett invited me to a party in his suite where, he explained, I would meet many early Americanists. He was not exaggerating, and a few weeks before MLA every year after that, I received a photocopied invitation to this legendary reception hosted

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