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| | A Literary History of the American West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | McGrath was born in 1916 on a farm near Sheldon, North Dakota, one of several children of Irish-background farm people, James Lang and Catherine McGrath. |
 | | For McGrath, North Dakota is the place of family, of hard work, of his first experiences with the struggle between workers and their bosses, of nature rough and smooth, of love and of lossand every place is North Dakota, and every town is Sheldon. |
 | | Here McGrath's imagery, which returns time and again to North Dakota and to Sheldon, as it were for an anchoring place, is dazzling, deriving from personal and political sources, and from his extensive reading, not only in modern poetry but in history, philosophy and mythology. |
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