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Edward Mendelson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work, including Early Auden (1981) and Later Auden (1999). He is also the author of a book about nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels, The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (2006).

Among the volumes by W. H. Auden that he has edited are Auden's Collected Poems (1976; 2nd edn. 1990; 3rd edn., 2007), The English Auden (1977), Selected Poems (1979, 2nd edn., 2007), As I Walked Out One Evening (selected light verse, 1995), and the continuing Complete Works of W. H. Auden (1986- ).

His work on Thomas Pynchon includes Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays (1978) and numerous essays, including "The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying of Lot 49 (1975; reprinted in the 1978 collection) and "Gravity's Encyclopedia" (in Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon, ed. by David Leverenz and George Levine, 1976). The latter essay established the widely-used critical category of "encyclopedic narrative, which he further described in another essay, "Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon" (MLN, vol. 91, 1976).

He is the editor of annotated editions of novels by Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and Anthony Trollope. With Michael Seidel he co-edited Homer to Brecht; The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions (1977).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Before he went to Columbia, he was an associate professor of English at Yale University and a visiting associate professor of English at Harvard University.

Since 1986 he has written about computing, software, and typography and is a contributing editor of PC Magazine.

Education

• Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1969 (thesis defense passed with distinction).
• B.A., The University of Rochester, 1966 (summa cum laude).

Miscellaneous

• Contributing Editor, PC Magazine; around three hundred reviews and essays since 1987; also reviews and essays for other computer‐related publications.

Popular Culture

In the film Into My Heart (1997) the character of Professor Mendelkern referred to by Ben Hawks (Rob Morrow) is said to be based on Mendelson.

In Alexander McCall Smith's novel The Right Attitude to Rain (2006), the main character exchanges letters with Mendelson about W.H. Auden and Robert Burns.

Honors, Fellowships, and Grants

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, since 2003.
• Fellow of the English Association, since 2003.
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1986‐1987.
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986‐1987 (declined).
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1980‐1981.
• A. Whitney Griswold Fund award, Yale University, 1979.
• National Humanities Institute Fellowship at the University of Chicago, 1977‐1978 (declined).
• A. Whitney Griswold Fund award, Yale University, 1976.
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1974‐1975.
• Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 1974‐1975 (declined).
• National Defense Education Act Fellowship for Graduate Study, The Johns Hopkins University, 1966‐1969.

Professional Activities

• Literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden.
• Outside consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement.
• Board of Guarantors, Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America, 2007‐ .
• Société Européenne de Culture, member since 1971.
• Academy of Literary Studies, member since 1982.
• MLA Division Executive Committee, Twentieth‐Century British Literature, member, 1985‐1989; chairman, 1988.
• MLA Committee on Educational Software, 1987‐1989.
• MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technology in Teaching and Research, 1989‐1990.
• Selection committees for the National Endowment for the Humanities; American Council of Learned Societies; Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, Emory University; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships at the 92nd Street YM‐YWHA, New York; judge for Twentieth Century Literature essay prize; and others.
• External examiner, Wesleyan University, City University of New York Graduate Center, Howard University; and elsewhere.
• Outside reader for Yale University Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Faber & Faber, PMLA, and other presses and journals.

Publications

Monographs and Collections of Essays

• Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Edited in collaboration with Michael Seidel.

• Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice‐Hall, 1978. Edited with an introduction.

• Early Auden. New York: The Viking Press, 1981. London: Faber & Faber, 1981. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983 (revised paperback edition); London: Faber & Faber, 1999 (revised paperback edition). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 (revised paperback edition). Finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Criticism, 1981.

• Later Auden. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999; London: Faber & Faber, 1999; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 (revised paperback edition).

• The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have To Say About the Stages of Life. New York: Pantheon, 2006; with new afterword, Anchor Books, 2007 (forthcoming). Translated into Korean (forthcoming) and Complex Chinese (forthcoming)

Editions, Bibliography, Exhibition Catalogue

• W. H. Auden: A Bibliography, 1924‐1969. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972. With B. C. Bloomfield.
• W. H. Auden. Forewords and Afterwords. New York: Random House, 1973. London: Faber & Faber, 1973. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
• Thomas Hardy. The Well‐Beloved. London: Macmillan, 1975. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976. London: Macmillan, 1985 (corrected paperback). (New Wessex Edition, introduction by J. Hillis Miller.)
• W. H. Auden 1907‐1973: An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. New York: The New York Public Library and Readex Books, 1976.
• W. H. Auden. Collected Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1976. New York: Random House, 1976. Revised edition: New York: Vintage Books, 1991;
• London: Faber & Faber, 1991. Further revised edition with a new prefatory note: New York: Modern Library, 2007; London: Faber & Faber 2007.
• W. H. Auden. The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927‐1939. London: Faber & Faber, 1977. New York: Random House, 1978. London: Faber & Faber, 1986 (paperback edition).
• W. H. Auden. Selected Poems: New Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1978. London: Faber & Faber, 1978. New York: Vintage Books, 1990 (reissue). Preface reprinted as “Auden’s Revision of Modernism” in Modern Critical Views: W. H. Auden, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 111‐20; translated into Japanese in Oden Shishu, ed. Masao Nakagiri (Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1993), pp. 198‐211; excerpts translated into French in the program of the production by Chatelet: Théâtre Musical de Paris of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, 28 September ‐ 12 October 1996.
• W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Plays, and Other Dramatic Writings by W. H. Auden, 1928‐1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. London: Faber & Faber, 1989. First volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
• Arnold Bennett. Riceyman Steps and Elsie and the Child. London: Penguin Books, 1991. Edited with Robert Squillace.
• W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Libretti, and Other Dramatic Writings by W. H. Auden, 1939‐1973. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. London: Faber & Faber, 1993. Second volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
• W. H. Auden. The Prolific and the Devourer. Hopewell, N. J.: Ecco Press, 1993.
• W. H. Auden. Tell Me the Truth About Love. New York: Vintage Books, 1994; London: Faber & Faber, 1994.
• W. H. Auden. As I Waked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse. New York: Vintage Books; London: Faber & Faber 1995.
• W. H. Auden. Prose, Volume I, 1926‐1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, 1997. Third volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
• George Meredith. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.
• Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll. New York: Sterling, 2000. (Poetry for Young People.)
• W. H. Auden. Prose, Volume II, 1939‐1948. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, 2002. Fourth volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
• Edward Lear. Edward Lear. New York: Sterling, 2001. (Poetry for Young People.)
• W. H. Auden’s Book of Light Verse. New York: New York Review Books, 2004.
• H. G. Wells. Tono‐Bungay. London, New York: Penguin, 2005.
• Anthony Trollope. Barchester Towers. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005.
• W. H. Auden. Selected Poems: Expanded Edition. New York: Vintage Books; London: Faber & Faber, 2007.
• W. H. Auden. Prose, Volume III, 1949‐1955. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, 2007. Fifth volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
• W. H. Auden. Prose, Volume IV, 1956‐1963. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, (in preparation). Sixth volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.

Essays

• The Coherence of Auden's The Orators. ELH, 35 (March 1968), 114 33.
• How to Read Berryman's Dream Songs. American Poetry Since 1960, ed. Robert B. Shaw. Cheadle, Cheshire: Carcanet, 1973, pp. 29 43. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: John Berryman, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1989), pp. 53 69.
• The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying of Lot 49. Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Literature, ed. Kenneth H. Baldwin and David K. Kirby. Durham: Duke University Press, 1975, pp. 182 222. Revised version in Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays (see above), pp. 112 46.
• The Writings of Mstislav Bogdanovich. TLS, 19 December 1975, p. 1515.
• Gravity's Encyclopedia. Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon, ed. George Levine and David Leverenz. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976, pp. 161 95. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 29-52.
• In the Meshes of the Networks. TLS, 25 June 1976, pp. 784 86.
• Editing Auden. New Statesman, 92 (17 September 1976), 376 77.
• The Auden Isherwood Collaboration. Twentieth Century Literature, 22 (October 1976), 276 85.
• Encyclopedic Narrative, from Dante to Pynchon. MLN, 91 (December 1976), 1267 75.
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Endgame. Homer to Brecht. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977, pp. 336 52.
• The Poetry of John Fuller. New Republic, 176 (28 May 1977), 32 35.
• Authorized Biography and Its Discontents. Harvard English Studies, 6 (1978), 9 26.
• Possum Pastoral. Yale Review, 67 (Spring 1978), 470 80.
• Mstislav Bogdanovich on Hendrijk De Stijl (with David Bromwich). TLS, 21 April 1978, pp. 440 41.
• Introduction. The W. H. Auden - Chester Kallman Collection at the Athens College Library. Athens: Athens College, 1981, unpaged.
• W. H. Auden. American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, supplement II, Part 1, ed. A. Walton Litz. New York: Scribner's, 1981, pp. 1 28.
• Post Modern Vanguard. London Review of Books, 3 (3 16 September 1981), 9 10. Essay review on After the Wake, by Christopher Butler.
• The OED in Review. Yale Review, 72 (Summer 1983), ix xxi.
• Picking Through the Wreckage. TLS, 26 August 1983, p. 901. Essay-review on An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Modernism, by Alistair Davies.
• Introduction. W. H. Auden: Five Poems. Athens, Ohio: Labyrinth Editions, 1983, unpaged.
• The Rise and Transformation of Modern Style: A Polemical History. Pr‚cis (Columbia University School of Architecture), 5 (Fall 1984), 93 97.
• John Fuller. In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985, pp. 144 51.
• Joris Karl Huysmans. In European Writers: The Romantic Century, vol. 7, ed. Jacques Barzun. New York: Scribner's, 1985, pp. 1709-30.
• Baedeker's Universe. Yale Review, 74 (Spring 1985), 386 403.
• Word Processing: A Guide for the Perplexed. Yale Review, 74 (Summer 1985), 615 40.
• The Death of Mrs. Dalloway: Two Readings. Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, ed. Mary Ann Caws. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986, pp. 272 80.
• Introduction. W. H. Auden, Three Unpublished Poems. New York: New York Public Library, 1986, unpaged.
• Word Processing: A Continuing Guide for the Perplexed. Yale Review, 75 (Spring 1986), 454-80.
• The Fading Coal vs. the Gothic Cathedral, or, What to do About an Author Both Forgetful and Deceased. Text, 3 (1987), 409-16.
• Caught in the War of Words. TLS, 16 January 1987, pp. 63-64. Essay review on Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War, ed. by Valentine Cunningham; Collected Writings, by John Cornford; Scenes and Actions and Collected Poems, by Christopher Caudwell. Cf. letter, 20 March 1987, p. 297.
• Rothman Salazar on 'Historicizing Phrenology: Wordsworth, Pynchon, and the Discursive Economy of the Cranial Text (pseudonymous, in collaboration with David Bromwich). Raritan, 8 (Summer 1988), 80-91.
• Loose Canons. London Review of Books, 10 (23 June 1988), 12-14. Essay-review on History and Value, by Frank Kermode, and British Writers of the Thirties, by Valentine Cunningham.
• Diary. London Review of Books, 10 (27 October 1988), 29. On the debate over the new edition of Ulysses.
• Larkin's Eggs. New Republic, 200 (5 June 1989), 29-33.
• Auden's Doubleness. Morphologies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture in Honor of Nathan Scott, ed. by Mary Gerhart and Anthony C. Yu. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990, pp. 309-17.
• Levity's Rainbow. New Republic, 203 (9-16 July 1990), 40-46. (On Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon)
• How Computers Can Damage Your Prose. TLS, 22 February 1991, p. 28. Translated in Vinduet (Oslo), no. 2, 1991, pp. 59-61; Weekendavisen Boger (Copenhagen), 25 April 2 May 1991, p. 16; Allt om B”cker (Stockholm), no. 3, 1991, p. 31; and La Stampa (Turin), date unknown.
• The Claims of History and the Two Audens. Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, ed. by George Bornstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991, pp. 157 70.
• Oedipa and the Cristeros. Pynchon Notes, 32-33 (Spring-Fall 1993), 186-87.
• The Oxford English Dictionary in the Square and the Round. Yale Review, 81 (October 1993), 111-23.
• The Making of Auden's 'Hymn for St Cecilia's Day.' On Mahler and Britten: Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his Seventieth Birthday, edited by Philip Reed (Aldeburgh Studies in Music). Aldeburgh: Britten-Pears Library and the Boydell Press, 1995, pp. 176-82.
• Preface. Pynchon, Malta, and Wittgenstein, edited by Petra Bianchi, Arnold Cassola, and Peter Saerracino Inglott. Valetta: Malta University Publishers, 1995, pp. vi-vii.
• We are Changed by What We Change: The Power Politics of Auden's Revisions. Romanic Review, 86 (May 1995), 527-35.
• Not Such a Fantasy. TLS, 3 November 1995, p. 22. Essay-review on Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood.
• Introduction. Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. London: Everyman's Library (publication indefinitely postponed for copyright reasons).
• The Word & the Web. New York Times Book Review, 2 June 1996, p. 35; reprinted in Patterns for College Writing, 7th ed., ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell (New York: St. Martin's, 1998), and in The Practical Guide to Writing, 8th ed., ed. Sylvan Barnet, Marcia Stubbs, and Pat Bellanca (New York: Longman, 1999).
• How Lawrence Corrected Wells; How Orwell Refuted Lawrence. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria Di Battista and Lucy McDiarmid. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 166 75.
• Revision and Power: The Example of W. H. Auden. Yale French Studies, 89 (1996), 103-12.
• Auden and Opera. Forty-ninth Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 7-23 June 1996 , pp. 158 62.
• Auden, From Parable to Myth. Yale Review', 87 (January 1999), 26-36.
• Tenativities and Inconclusions. There Are Kermodians: A Liber Amicorum for Frank Kermode, edited by Anthony Holden and Ursula Owen. London, Everyman, 1999, pp. 132-37.
• Preface. Paradoxical Feminism: The Novels of Rebecca West, by Ann Norton. Lanham, Maryland International Scholars Publications, 2000.
• W. H. Auden: From Myth to Parable. Myth and Meaning, William J. Conklin and Mary Jean Irion, editors. New York: Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, 2001, pp. 33-38.
• Class, Childbirth and Murder: Auden in the 1940s. W. H. Auden Nel Trentenniale della scomparsa (1993-2003), a cura di Tiziana Morosetti. Palermo: Ila Palma, 2004, pp. 17 33.
• Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. G. C. Matthews and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 921-28.
• Preface. W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse. New York: New York Review Books, 2004 pp. vii-xxi. First printed as Light and Outrageous, New York Review of Books, 51.13 (12 August 2004), 52-54.
• The European Auden. Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden, edited by Stan Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 55-67.
• Introduction. H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay. London: Penguin, 2005, pp. xiv-xxvii.
• Introduction. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005, pp. xiii-xxix.
• A Note on Auden. W. H. Auden. Collected Poems. New York: Modern Library; London: Faber & Faber, 2007, pp. xvii-xix.
• Auden's God. New York Review of Books (forthcoming).
• Clarissa Dalloway Remembers Cymbeline. Lincoln Center Theater Review (forthcoming)
• Reviews
• The Other Side of Silence, by Jerzy Peterkiewicz. Yale Review, 40 (Autumn 1970), xviii xx.
• W. H. Auden, by George T. Wright; W. H. Auden, by Dennis Davison; The Later Auden, by George W. Bahlke. Yearbook of English Studies, 2 (1972), 337 39.
• Plastic Sense, by Malcolm de Chazal. Yale Review, 41 (Summer 1972), xvii xviii.
• The Case of the Helmeted Airman: A Study of W. H. Auden, by Fran‡ois Duchene. Yale Review, 42 (Spring 1973), xiv xvi.
• Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. Yale Review, 42 (Summer 1973), 632 41. (Pynchon's Gravity). Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Thomas Pynchon, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 15-21.
• The New Polytheism, by David L. Miller. Drew Gateway, 46 (1975), 147 51.
• Eight Contemporary Poets, by Calvin Bedient. Journal of Modern Literature, 4 (1975), 969 70.
• Thomas Pynchon, by Joseph Slade. TLS, 13 June 1975, p. 666. (Rainbow Corner)
• Man's Place: An Essay on Auden, by Richard Johnson. Yearbook of English Studies, 6 (1976), 336 38.
• The Ironic Harvest: English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, by Geoffrey Thurley. Journal of Modern Literature, 5 (1976), 638 39.
• News for Everyman: Radio and Foreign Affairs in Thirties America, by David Culbert. Yale Review, 46 (Spring 1977), v xii.
• Children of the Sun, by Martin Green. New Statesman, 93 (27 May 1977), 715 16. (Not So Dandy)
• Literature and Politics in Modern Britain, by George Watson. New Statesman, 94 (16 September 1977), 373 74. (Mirrors for Magistrates)
• The Poetry of the Thirties, by A. T. Tolley. Journal of Modern Literature, 6 (1977), 533 34.
• The Poetry of Civic Virtue, by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Journal of Religion, 58 (January 1978), 80 82.
• John Ashbery, by David Kermani . TLS, 27 January 1978, p. 99. (The Rise of the Reference Guide)
• The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, ed. Kingsley Amis. Sewanee Review, 87 (Spring 1979), 320 25. (Light Occasions)
• The State of the Language, ed. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks. Yale Review, 70 (Autumn 1980), vii ix.
• Pynchon: The Voice of Ambiguity, by Thomas H. Schaub. Pynchon Notes, 7 (October 1981), 43 48.
• Comparative Criticism 1, ed. Elinor Shaffer. Modern Language Review, 77 (January 1982), 132 34.
• Old Glory: An American Voyage, by Jonathan Raban; No Particular Place to Go, by Hugo Williams. London Review of Books, 4 (18 February 3 March 1982), 15 16. (An American Romance)
• Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir, by Eileen Simpson. Washington Post Book World, 27 June 1982, pp. 1 2.
• Essays on Fiction 1971 1982, by Frank Kermode. Sunday Times (London), 16 October 1983, p. 43.
• Freshwater, by Virginia Woolf (New York University Theater). TLS, 11 November 1983, p. 1248. (A Family Romance)
• Flying to Nowhere, by John Fuller. The New York Times Book Review, 4 March 1984, p. 9.
• Poets in Residence (on the Poets' Corner in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine). TLS, 29 June 1984, p. 728.
• Slow Learner: Early Stories, by Thomas Pynchon. New Republic, 16 & 23 July 1984, pp. 36 39. (How Gravity Began)
• The Art of New York, by Peter Conrad. TLS, 21 September 1984, p. 1050. (On Pinions Free)
• In Search of a Past, by Ronald Fraser. The New York Times Book Review, 17 February 1985, p. 12.
• Mikhail Bakhtin, by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist. Critical Texts, 3 (Winter 1986), 18 20.
• Journals 1939-1983 and Collected Poems 1928-1985, by Stephen Spender. Boston Sunday Globe, 26 January 1986, pp. 51, 53.
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens, exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. TLS, 25 April 1986, p. 449. (Monuments to Individuality)
• Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky. Washington Post Book World, 25 May 1986, p. 7. (Against the Limits of Language)
• The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Modern Thought, by Sanford Schwartz. Journal of Religion, 67 (January 1987), 130-33.
• Death-Watch: A Novel, by Jacques Brault. Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, 38 (July-December 1987), 97-98.
• Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing, by Michael Heim. New Republic, 198 (22 February 1988), 36-39. (The Corrupt Computer)
• The Government of the Tongue, by Seamus Heaney. TLS, 1-7 July 1988, p. 726. (Poetry as Fate and Faith)
• 'Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, by Dan H. Laurence. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, new ser. 2 (1988), 86-89.
• Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, by Jonathan Raban. Daily Telegraph, 29 December 1990, Weekend section, p. XII. (Content to be Someone Else)
• Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power, by John Dugdale. American Literature, 64 (December 1992), 842-44.
• Dewey Defeats Truman, by Thomas Mallon. TLS, 25 July 1997, p. 22. (The President That Never Was)
• Opened Ground, by Seamus Heaney, and Seamus Heaney, by Helen Vendler. The New York Times Book Review, 20 December 1998, pp. 10-11. (Digging Down)
• The Strength of Poetry, by James Fenton. The New York Times Book Review, 15 July 2001, p. 10. (The Personal is Poetical)

References

• Contemporary Authors (Gale Research), vol. 65-68
• Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series (Gale Research), vols. 11, 87
• The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, ed. by Jenny Stringer (1996)

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