Stuart, Jesse [Hilton]
Stuart, Jesse [Hilton]( 1907–84),Kentucky author of regional literature. His works on his native state include poems: Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (1934), 700 sonnets; Album of Destiny (1944); Kentucky Is My Land (1952); and Hold April (1962); and collections of stories, including Head o' W-Hollow (1936), Men of the Mountains (1941), Tales from the Plum Grove Hills (1946), Plowshare in Heaven (1958), and Save Every Lamb (1964). His novels, also set in Kentucky, include Trees of Heaven (1940), about a farm couple and their son's love for the daughter of poor-white squatters; Mongrel Mettle (1944), a satirical story of a dog; Taps for Private Tussie (1943), about a mountain family's partly humorous adventures in spending insurance money paid after the supposed death of a son in the army; Foretaste of Glory (1946); and Hie to the Hunters (1950)....
[The entire page is 238 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
