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Stephen Greenblatt(Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor ofThe Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of eleven books, includingThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom;Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare;Hamlet in Purgatory;Practicing New Historicism;Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; andLearning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited seven collections of criticism, includingCultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journalRepresentations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize forShakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, 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 ofThe Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity and Victorian PoetryandVictorian and Modern Poeticsand editor of the Norton Critical Edition ofThe Mill on the Flossand, 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 ofThe Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer’s Poetry, and editor of the "Romaunt of the Rose" inThe Riverside Chaucerand, with George B. Pace, "Chaucer’s Minor Poems I" inThe 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 forProtestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyricand the Explicator Prize forDonne’s Anniversariesand thePoetry of Praise. Her other books includeParadise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms,Writing Women in Jacobean England,Milton: A Critical Biography, andThe 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 forThe Life of the Poet. He is also the author ofThe Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England;Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition; andSamuel Johnson: The Life of an Authorand editor ofHigh 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 ofThe Meaning of More’sUtopia and principal editor of the Cambridge edition ofUtopia(Latin and English), editor of the Norton Critical Edition ofUtopia(3rd edition), More’sHistory of King Richard the Third, andThe Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, and coeditor, with Gordon Teskey, ofUnfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance; he has also written a history of the Indiana University School of Music.Deidre Shauna Lynchis Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author ofThe Economy of Character, which was awarded the MLA’s Prize for a First Book, and editor ofJaneites: Austen’s Disciples and Devoteesand, with William B. Warner,Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She is also an editor ofThe 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 received the 1996 Roland Bainton Book Prize forInwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. She is also the author ofBen Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and coeditor ofEnglish Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology,The Norton Shakespeare, and a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She is a recipient of Guggenheim, NEH,  and ACLS fellowships.James Noggle (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author ofThe 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 ofTransnational Poetics, which won the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and ofPoetry 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 ofThe Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in EnglishandYeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime. He is coeditor ofThe 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 ofMen in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian GentlemanandHeart 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 ofPiers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text(1990);Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry(1995);Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547; Volume 2 ofThe Oxford English Literary History(2002);Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents(2007); andUnder 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 ofRounding the Horn: Collected PoemsandSinging 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 ofThe 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 ofThe Hoodwinking of Madeline and Other Essays on Keats’s Poems,The Texts of Keats’s Poems, the standard edition ofThe Poems of John Keats;Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius;Coleridge and Textual Instability; andReading "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(Ph.D. Harvard) is Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize forThe Mirror and the Lampand the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize forNatural Supernaturalism. He is also the author ofThe Milk of Paradise,A Glossary of Literary Terms,The Correspondent Breeze, andDoing 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 1999The Mirror and the Lampwas ranked twenty-fifth among the Modern Library’s "100 best nonfiction books written in English during the twentieth century."--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.