Jonathan Gentry

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In Mark Van Doren
…and three book-length narrative poems: Jonathan Gentry (1931), about the settling of the Midwest by three generations of Gentrys, their experience in the Civil War, and the end of a long-held dream of a paradise beyond the Appalachian Mountains; A Winter Diary (1935), the poetic record of a winter spent…
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