Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, with Catherine Gallagher, "Practicing New Historicism," published by the University of Chicago Press, and the recent" Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare,
Meyer Howard Abrams was born in 1912. He in the 1930s at Harvard and with I. A. Richards at Cambridge University in 1935. Abrams set the standard of critical authority for American literary studies for the quarter century after World War II. He is the author of two syntheses of English Romantic thought, and has also been general and Romantic period editor of the most widely used college anthology of English literature; The Norton Anthology of English Literature,as well as author of a popular Glossary of Literary Terms, and several influential essays on English Romanticism. Abrams's dissertation written in 1940, was expanded and published in 1953 as The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. The Mirror and the Lamp contributed to the legitimation of English Romanticism as a field of study. Nearly 20 years later, in Natural Supernaturalism, Abrams asserted a different thesis with similar authority.
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 Chaucerrsquo;s Poetry , and editor of the "Romaunt of the Rose" in The Riverside Chaucer and, with George B. Pace, "Chaucerrsquo;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 MLArsquo;s James Russell Lowell Prize for Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric and the Explicator Prize for Donnersquo;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.
