![]() ![]() After the war he returned to Rice until l954, when he received a Sewanee Review fellowship to spend a year in Europe writing poetry. Dickey taught at Rice University until he was recalled for the war in Korea. He married Maxine Webster Syerson on November 4, 1948. ![]() He received a bachelor’s degree with high honors in 1949 and an M.A. He served in the Pacific as a radar observer.Īfter the war Dickey moved on to Vanderbilt University. ![]() At the end of the football season, he left Clemson to join the U.S. He performed well only in one game, but his Clemson experience established a basis for a myth of Dickey as sports star. After an unhappy preparatory year at Darlington Academy in Rome, Georgia, he enrolled for the fall semester of 1942 at Clemson College to play football. He graduated from North Fulton High School in 1941. Dickey was born on February 2, 1923, in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Eugene Dickey and Maibelle Swift. Considered in the 1960s to be the chief rival to Robert Lowell as the major poet of the generation, James Dickey spent almost thirty years as resident poet and Carolina Professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. ![]()
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