Marty G. Price
Instructor
English Department
Mississippi State University

email: mprice@ra.msstate.edu

Degrees

Master of Arts, English, University of Chicago, 1976
Master of Information and Library Studies (Library Science), University of Michigan, 1990
Bachelor of Arts, Fairmont State College, 1974

Courses Taught

The survey courses: American Lit I & II; English Lit I & II; Intro to Lit; and Freshman Composition.

Personal Interests

Romanticism
Alternative Theology
Ghost Stories

Favorites

Novelist: Charles Dickens; Novel: Bleak House.
Poet: Robert Browning; Poem: "Birches" (Robert Frost).
Short Story author: Thomas Hardy; Short Stories: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (Ernest Hemingway), "Ethan Brand" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
Ghost Story writer: Ambrose Bierce; Ghost Story: "The Celestial Omnibus" (E.M. Forster).
Folklorists: Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats; Folk Poem: "Tam O'Shanter" (Burns).
Philosopher / Critic: Benedetto Croce.
Aphorism: "A man's reach should exceed his grasp / Or what's a heaven for." (Robert Browning, "Andrea Del Sarto").

Vita

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Self-Published (web) fiction and poetry

The Alchemist's Cauldron