Stanton Arthur Coblentz (August 24, 1896 – September 6, 1982) was an

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and poet. He received a

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in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published

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was '' The Sunken World,'' a

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about

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, in '' Amazing Stories Quarterly'' for July, 1928. The next year, he published his first novel, ''The Wonder Stick''. But poetry and history were his greatest strengths. Coblentz tended to write satirically. He also wrote books of literary criticism and nonfiction concerning historical subjects. ''Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz'' was published the year after his death.

Bibliography

* '' The Decline of Man'' (1925) on fiction* '' The Lone Adventurer'' (1927) * '' The Literary Revolution'' (1927) on fiction* '' The Sunken World'' (1928) * '' The Wonder Stick'' (1929) * '' Shadows on a Wall'' (1930) * '' The Answer of the Ages'' (1931) * '' In Caverns Below'' (1935, also known as ''The Hidden World'') * '' The Pageant of Man'' (1936) * '' Songs by the Wayside'' (1938) * '' Green Vistas'' (1943) * '' Youth Madness'' (1944) * ''

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'' (1945) * '' An Editor Looks At Poetry'' (1947) * '' The Sunken World'' (1949) * '' After 12,000 Years'' (1950) * '' Into Plutonian Depths'' (1950) * '' The Planet of Youth'' (1952) * '' Times travelers'' (1952) * '' The Rise of the Anti-Poets'' (1955) * '' Under the Triple Suns'' (1955) * '' Hidden World'' (1955) * '' The Blue Barbarians'' (1958) * '' My Life in Poetry'' (1959) * '' Next Door to the Sun'' (1960) * ''

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'' (1961) * '' The Moon People'' (1964) * '' The Last of the Great Race'' (1964) * '' The Lizard Lords'' (1964) * '' The Lost Comet'' (1964) * '' Ten Crises in Civilization'' (1965) * '' Lord of Tranerica'' (1966) * '' The Crimson Capsule'' (1967, also known as ''The Animal People'') * '' The Poetry Circus'' (1967) * '' The Day the World Stopped'' (1968) * '' The Militant Dissenters'' (1970) * '' The Island People'' (1971) * ''Strange Universes'': ''New Selected Poems'' (1977) * ''Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1989)

References

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