F.R.C.S., Professor Emerita Victoria College
Areas of Interest
- Poetry and poetics, especially modern: history, practice, principles
- Literature and the English Bible
- Riddle and enigma
- Literary allusion.
Books
Elizabeth Bishop at Work (Harvard University Press, 2017)
A Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens (Princeton 2007, paperback 2009);
Enigmas and Riddles in Literature (Cambridge 2006);
Against Coercion: Games Poets Play (Stanford 1998);
Poetry, Word-Play and Word-War in Wallace Stevens (Princeton 1988);
Browning’s Lyrics: An Exploration (U of Toronto Press 1974).