United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Smith, Ernest2007-05-31Encyclopedia article about Alfred Corn. Since the appearance of his first book of poems in 1976, Alfred Corn has distinguished himself as one of the most original poets writing in the United States. In addition to his poems, Corn has also published one novel, a highly praised manual of prosody, a collection of essays, translations of poetry and drama, and critical writing on art, music, and the theater, as well as an edited collection of essays on the New Testament. Corn's poetry is in the visionary mode of earlier American poets like Walt Whitman and Hart Crane, but at the same time it is the work of a poet's poet, full of craft and the keen, urbane sensibility of mid-century poets like Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Critics--GeorgiaAuthors, American--GeorgiaPoets, American--GeorgiaCorn, Alfred, 1943-Alfred Corn (b. 1943)Text