David G. Riede is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of
Swinburne: A Study of Romantic Mythmaking
(1978),
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Limits of Victorian Vision
(1983),
Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language
(1988),
Oracle and Hierophants: Constructions of Romantic Authority
(1991), and numerous articles on Romantic and Victorian literature.
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James Shapiro is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of
Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare
(1991), and is currently completing a book entitled
Shakespeare and the Jews
.
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Vincent Sherry teaches at Villanova University.
His James Joyce: Ulysses
will be published in 1994 by the Cambridge University Press. His studies of modern and contemporary poetry include
Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism
(1992),
The Uncommon Tonque: The Poetry and Criticism of Geoffrey Hill
(1987), essays and reviews in major quarterlies and such periodicals as the
Times Literary Supplement
. He has edited the
Dictionary of Literary Biography
volumes on
Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, 19451960
(1984) and
Poets of Great Britain and Ireland since 1960
(1985).
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Carole Silver, Professor of English at Stern College, Yeshiva University, and Chairperson of the university's Division of Humanities, has written widely on the Pre-Raphaelites. Author of
The Romance of William Morris
, editor of several volumes on Morris's work, most recently
Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris
(with Florence Boos), she is also coauthor of
Kind Words: A Thesaurus of Euphemisms
(revised, 1990). With a book in progress on the Victorian fascination with the fairies, she has prepared an exhibition and catalogue on the Morris Circle in Canada.
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Richard Strier is Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His publications include
Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry
, essays and reviews on Renaissance poetry and on critical theory, and, edited with Heather Dubrow,
The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture
.
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Carl Woodring is George Edward Woodberry Professor of Literature, Emeritus, of Columbia University. His several books include
Nature into Art, Politics in English Romantic Poetry, Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf
, and two volumes of
Table Talk
in
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
.
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