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關於作者:
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 Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to
Heaney, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle
Award, and 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, an
NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, and MLA’s William Riley
Parker Prize.^Jon Stallworthy M.A. and B.Litt. Oxford is Senior
Research Fellow at Wolfson College of Oxford University, where he
is also Professor of English Literature. He is also the 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 he is
the editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry, The
Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; and
The Oxford Book of War Poetry. Stallworthy has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the British Academy and
the Royal Society of Literature.^Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D. Yale is
Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and
Language at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, he is the author
of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became
Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism;
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, and Learning to
Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited six
collections of criticism, is the co-author with Charles Mee of a
play, Cardenio, and is a founding coeditor of the journal
Representations. He honors include the MLA''s James Russell Lowell
Prize, for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social
Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award
from the Mellon Foundation, the Distinguished Teaching Award from
the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society.^M. H. Abrams Founding Editor Emeritus;
Ph.D. Harvard is 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."