About the Author
----------------
Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of
the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of
eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and
Eve: The Story that Created Us,The Swerve: How the World Became
Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012
Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous
Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse:
Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning:
From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of
criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a
founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors
include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, for both
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in
Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the
Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the
Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the
William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus
Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the
Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California,
Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of
America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor Emeritus of English at
the University of California, Berkeley, and President of Smith
College. She is the author of The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of
Particularity and Victorian Poetry and Victorian and Modern
Poetics and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Mill on
the Floss and, with John Jordan, Victorian Literature and the
Victorian Visual Imagination. She is the recipient of an NEH
Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
Alfred David (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of English Emeritus at
Indiana University. He is the author of The Strumpet Muse: Art
and Morals in Chaucer’s Poetry, and editor of the "Romaunt of the
Rose" in The Riverside Chaucer and, with George B. Pace,
"Chaucer’s Minor Poems I" in The Variorum Chaucer. He is the
recipient of a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and Guggenheim and
Fulbright Research fellowships and past president of the New
Chaucer Society.
Barbara K. Lewalski (Ph.D. Chicago) is William R. Kenan Professor
of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
She is the recipient of the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for
Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
and the Explicator Prize for Donne’s Anniversaries and the Poetry
of Praise. Her other books include Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric
of Literary Forms, Writing Women in Jacobean England, Milton: A
Critical Biography, and The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght
(editor). Lewalski is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEH Senior
fellowships and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and Honored Scholar of the Milton Society.
Lawrence Lipking (Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English and
Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Northwestern
University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize
for The Life of the Poet. He is also the author of The Ordering
of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England; Abandoned Women and
Poetic Tradition; and Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author and
editor of High Romantic Argument. Lipking is the recipient of
Guggenheim, ACLS, Newberry Library, Wilson International Center
for Scholars, and NEH Senior fellowships and is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
George M. Logan (Ph.D. Harvard) is a Senior Fellow of Massey
College in the University of Toronto and the James Cappon
Professor of English Emeritus at Queen’s University, Canada,
where he was head of the English Department for nine years and an
award-winning teacher. He is the author of The Meaning of More’s
Utopia and principal editor of the Cambridge edition of Utopia
(Latin and English), editor of the Norton Critical Edition of
Utopia (3rd edition), More’s History of King Richard the Third,
and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, and coeditor, with
Gordon Teskey, of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance;
he has also written a history of the Indiana University School of
Music.
Deidre Shauna Lynch is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate
Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the
author of The Economy of Character, which was awarded the MLA’s
Prize for a First Book, and editor of Janeites: Austen’s
Disciples and Devotees and, with William B. Warner, Cultural
Institutions of the Novel. She is also an editor of The Norton
Anthology of English Literature. She is the recipient of
fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, of the State University of
New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and of
the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools’ Graduate Faculty
Teaching Award.
Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is James Branch
Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is
the author of Being and Having in Shakespeare; Inwardness and
Theater in the English Renaissance; and Ben Jonson and the Roman
Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and
coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, and a collection of
criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She has been
awarded Guggenheim, Leverhulme, NEH, and ACLS fellowships, and
the Roland Bainton Prize for Inwardness and Theater.
James Noggle (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Professor of English at
Wellesley College. He is author of The Skeptical Sublime:
Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists; his second
book, The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British
Writing, is forthcoming from Oxford. He is the recipient of
fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and
the American Philosophical Society.
Jahan Ramazani (Ph.D. Yale and M.Phil. Oxford) is Edgar F.
Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia,
previously the Mayo NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is
the author of Transnational Poetics, which won the Harry Levin
Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and of
Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney, which
was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is
also the author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in
English and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and
the Sublime. He is coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry. Ramazani is the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a
Rhodes Scholarship, and the William Riley Parker Prize of the
Modern Language Association.
Catherine Robson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor of
English at New York University and a faculty member of the
Dickens Project. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost
Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman and Heart Beats: Everyday
Life and the Memorized Poem (forthcoming), and has received
fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the
University of California, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Douglas P. and Katherine B.
Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and former Chair
of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of
Cambridge. An Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the
Humanities, he is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to
the B-Text (1990); Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry
(1995); Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547; Volume 2 of
The Oxford English Literary History (2002); Burning to Read:
English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation nents (2007); and
Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition
(2010).
Jon Stallworthy (M.A. and B.Litt. Oxford) is Senior Research
Fellow at Wolfson College of Oxford University, where he is an
Emeritus Professor of English Literature. He is also former John
Wendell Anderson Professor at Cornell, where he taught after a
career at Oxford University Press. His biography of Wilfred Owen
won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary
Award, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. His biography of Louis MacNeice won the
Southern Arts Literary Prize. He is also the author of Rounding
the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a
Poet, and editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen’s
poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of
Love Poetry; The Oxford Book of War Poetry; and coeditor of The
Norton Anthology of Poetry. Stallworthy has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal
Society of Literature.
Jack Stillinger (Ph.D. Harvard) is Center for Advanced Study
Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Illinois. He
is the author of The Hoodwinking of Madeline and Other Essays on
Keats’s Poems, The Texts of Keats’s Poems, the standard edition
of The Poems of John Keats; Multiple Authorship and the Myth of
Solitary Genius; Coleridge and Textual Instability; and Reading
"The Eve of St. Agnes." He is the recipient of Guggenheim and
Woodrow Wilson fellowships and is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
M. H. Abrams (1912―2015) was Class of 1916 Professor of English,
Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa
Christian Gauss Prize for The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA's
James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural Supernaturalism. He is
also the author of The Milk of Paradise, A Glossary of Literary
Terms, The Correspondent Breeze, and Doing Things with Texts. He
is the recipient of Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller
Postwar fellowships, the Award in Humanistic Studies from the
Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), the Distinguished Scholar
Award by the Keats-Shelley Society (1987), and the Award for
Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1990). In
1999 The Mirror and the Lamp was ranked twenty-fifth among the
Modern Library's "100 best nonfiction books written in English
during the twentieth century."
Read more ( javascript:void(0) )