Rate My Professor James Dickey

Dickey was renowned for his poetry, novels, criticism, and lectures. Key publications include poetry collections such as Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960), Drowning with Others (1962), Two Poems of the Air (1964), Helmets (1964), Buckdancer's Choice: Poems (1965), Poems 1957-1967 (1967), The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970), The Zodiac (1976), The Strength of Fields (1979), Puella (1982), and The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992). His novels encompass Deliverance (1970), Alnilam (1987), and To the White Sea (1993). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship following Drowning with Others and the National Book Award for Poetry for Buckdancer's Choice in 1965. From 1966 to 1968, he served as the 18th United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Subsequently, he held the position of Professor of English and writer-in-residence at the University of South Carolina from 1969 until 1997. Dickey's work focused on poetry exploring themes from his World War II and Korean War pilot experiences, nature, survival, and the American South, establishing him as one of the most distinguished modern American poets.