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Robert Wallace

An American poet, teacher, and small-press publisher, he wrote with warmth about art, nature, and human relationships. His work ranged from lyrical collections to a long-used guide for writing poetry.

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The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election

The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election

by Robert Wallace

George Buchanan

George Buchanan

by John Campbell Smith, Robert Wallace

A voice from the fire : a sermon occasioned by the public burning of the Bible at Kingstown, by the Redemptorist Fathers, on the 5th of November, 1855

A voice from the fire : a sermon occasioned by the public burning of the Bible at Kingstown, by the Redemptorist Fathers, on the 5th of November, 1855

by Robert Wallace

About the author

Born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1932, Robert Arthur Wallace studied English at Harvard College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1953. He later studied at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, on a Fulbright scholarship and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

Wallace taught at Bryn Mawr, Sweet Briar, Vassar, and eventually Western Reserve University, later Case Western Reserve University. Over the years he published several poetry collections, including This Various World and Other Poems, Views from a Ferris Wheel, Ungainly Things, Swimmer in the Rain, and The Common Summer: New and Collected Poems.

He also founded Bits Press in 1974, a small press devoted to short poems and other literary work, and published Writing Poems in 1982, a poetry text that remained in use for decades. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1999.