In Wise's hands, these seemingly disparate worlds become one. Lanterns on the levee by William Alexander Percy, 1941, Knopf edition, in English - 1st ed. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story-his prominent family's troubled history, his elite education and subsequent soldiering in World War I, his civic leadership during the Mississippi River flood of 1927, his mentoring of writers Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, and the writing and publication of his classic autobiography, 'Lanterns on the Levee.' This biography sets Percy's life and search for meaning in the context of his history in the Deep South and his experiences in the gay male world of the early twentieth century. We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planters Son (Library of Southern Civilization) by Percy, William Alexander and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist. Analysis Of Lanterns On The Levee By William Alexander Percy. , Of Silence and of Stars (Greenville, Mississippi: Levee Press, Limited ed., 1934)(Anne Stokes ed.), The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy (New York. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Percy Thompson-Wright MSS thought tion Tolson Uncle University Press Vardaman W. Author of Lanterns on the levee, In April once, Sappho in Levkas, Enzios kingdom, Selected poems, Lanterns on the levee recollections of a planters son.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (2012) The weight of this family narrative found expression in Will Percys memoirs, Lanterns on the Levee-and in the works of Walker Percy.

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