Albert Gelpi‎

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Albert Gelpi is the Coe Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Stanford University.{{cite web|url=https://english.stanford.edu/people/albert-gelpi|title=Albert Gelpi | Department of English|website=english.stanford.edu|accessdate=2018-01-17}} He taught literature, particularly poetry, there between 1968 and 2002.

Gelpi also wrote a trilogy of literary criticism involving American poetry:{{cite journal|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-century-lit/article-abstract/63/1/94/30194/American-Poetry-After-Modernism-The-Power-of-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext|title=American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word by Albert Gelpi | Twentieth-Century Literature | Duke University Press|journal=Twentieth-Century Literature|date=March 2017|volume=63|issue=1|pages=94–101|doi=10.1215/0041462X-3833523|accessdate=2018-01-17|last1=Axelrod|first1=Steven Gould|s2cid=164411532|url-access=subscription}}

• 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/albert-j-gelpi/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Albert J. Gelpi}} His books are held in libraries worldwide.{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2143558|via=worldcat.org|title=Emily Dickinson : the mind of the poet (Book, 1971) [WorldCat.org]|oclc=2143558|accessdate=2018-01-17}} He earned degrees from Loyola University New Orleans (BA), Tulane University (MA), and Harvard University (PhD).