A01=David Middleton
Author_David Middleton
Category=DCF
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807130810
- Weight: 109g
- Dimensions: 164 x 191mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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David Middleton celebrates the artist Jean-François Millet's sympathetic realism depicting the harsh life of French peasants in the nineteenth century and honoring their essential human dignity. Middleton follows Millet, picture by picture, in taking a lowly pastoral theme and elevating it to epic and tragedy. He seeks to describe Gruchy -- the small Norman village near Cherbourg where Millet grew up -- and explore that rural world in relation to the American South and his own career as a Louisiana poet.
David Middleton is the author of two previous poetry collections, The Burning Fields and Beyond the Chandeleurs. He is a professor of English, Alcee Fortier Distinguished Professor, and Poet-in-Residence at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
