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The Berkeley English Ph.D. program has been ranked the top graduate English program in the country, according to the most recent guide to "America's Best Colleges" published by the U.S. News and World Report. Faculty in the English Department have received more university Distinguished Teaching Awards—25—than any other department.


Recent Faculty Books

Blake's Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions
Steven Goldsmith

The Johns Hopkins University Press (February 21, 2013)19th-Century British
Poetry



Blake’s Agitation is a thorough and engaging reflection on the dynamic, forward-moving, and active nature of critical thought. Steven Goldsmith investigates the modern notion that there’s a fiery feeling in critical thought, a form of emotion that gives authentic criticism the potential to go beyond interpreting the world. By arousing this critical excitement in readers a....

Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value
Charles F. Altieri

Cornell University Press (May 14, 2013)Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century American



In his recent work, Charles Altieri has argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, Altieri argues that critics have failed to appreciate the degree to which modernist poetry, like modernist art, breaks from the epistemology that arose from cultures of empiricism. ....

My Life and My Life in the Nineties
Lyn Hejinian

Wesleyan (March 7, 2013)Poetry



Lyn Hejinian's My Life is one of the foundational texts of Language Poetry. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the postmodern canon. This Wesleyan edition includes the 45-part prose poem sequence along with a closely related ten-part work titled My Life in the Nineties. ....

A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998
Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, eds.

Wesleyan (April 1, 2013)Poetry



Between 1982 and 1998, Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues contributed to a surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to Poetics Journal presents the major conversations and debates from the journal, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. ....

The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg
Ian Duncan

Ian Duncan and Douglas S. Mack

Edinburgh University Press, 201219th-Century British
Scottish



James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the contexts and debates that helped to shape his writings. The book provides an indispensable guide to Hogg's life and worlds, his publishing histo....

Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010
Eric Falci

Eric Falci

Cambridge University PressPoetry
Irish
20th- and 21st-Century British



In Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid-1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry fr....



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