Deliverance Summary
James Dickey

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Deliverance Summary

Deliverance is a novel by James Dickey, an American novelist and poet.

Lewis, Ed, Bobby, and Drew all decide to take a weekend canoe trip down a section of river in the North Georgia wilderness. Though none of them have any experience canoeing, and very little at all in the wilderness, each is bored with life in the city, and Lewis convinces them it is a perfect place for them to...

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James Dickey Biographies (6)

James Dickey

1,869 words, approx. 7 pages

James Dickey (1923-1997), with his unique vision, often violent imagery, and eccentric style, created for himself a place as an important American poet in the last half of the twentieth century. Altho... Read more

James Dickey

6,353 words, approx. 22 pages

Writer James Dickey led a remarkable life as poet, novelist, critic, and screenwriter. Winner of the National Book Award for his verse collection Buckdancer's Choice, Dickey attained national and inte... Read more

James Dickey

9,026 words, approx. 31 pages

Biography EssayGlory came early in James Dickey's career: six years after his first collection appeared in Poets of Today VII (1960), he won the 1966 National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965... Read more

James (Lafayette) Dickey

8,262 words, approx. 28 pages

[This entry was updated from its original form in Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 52--67.]James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in ord... Read more

James (Lafayette) Dickey

10,810 words, approx. 37 pages

In what he calls a "snapshot" of James Dickey in The Writer's Voice (1973), George Garrett has written, "Legends, myths, fables and fabliaux, anecdotes, quotations from, hard and funny sayings, tru... Read more

James (Lafayette) Dickey

8,244 words, approx. 28 pages

James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in order to live as fully as possible. Immersed in death encounters, he formulated a poetic vision dramatizing his heightened se... Read more