Albert Gelpi is the Coe Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Stanford University.
He taught literature, particularly poetry, there between 1968 and 2002.
Gelpi also wrote a trilogy of literary criticism involving American poetry:
The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet
A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950
American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the WordGelpi was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 for his work in American literature.