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Nearer the Heart’s Desire

Bloomsbury USA, 2016

Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam’s quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald–himself a relatively obscure critic–translated and organized some one hundred of them into a unified…

Literature and Film

Indiana Univ. Press, 1969.

A short book arguing that film gets much of its story-telling technique from similar and earlier literary techniques; that film is a sort of visual literature. Paperback ed. 1972. Ch 5 “Verbal and Visual Languages” reprinted in Fred H. Marcus, Film and Literature, Chandler Pub. 1971. A ch. was also reprinted in Take One, a…

The Rise of Modem Mythology. 1680-1860

with B. Feldman, Indiana University Press, 1972

A large guided anthology of theories of myth with extensive introductions and bibliographies. Many of the books excerpted or discussed here were reprinted in a series called “Myth and Romanticism” 52 vols. Garland Publishing, 1978-84. The 1972 edition has a foreword by Mircea Eliade; the new edition of 2000 has an additional introduction by Wendy…

Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance

Indiana University Press, 1978

An academic study of myth in selected nineteenth century American writers. Ch 3 was reprinted in Critical Essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Burkholder and Myerson, G.K. Hall and Co. 1983.

Three Centuries of American Poetry

with Allen Mandelbaum. New York, Bantam Books, 1999

Also published as A Treasury of American Poetry. A large anthology of poetry in America in English, from the beginning to the mid nineteen twenties. Besides the usual suspects, popular poems, parodies, ballads, and song lyrics are represented. Some annotation has been included. From the Colonial Era to the early Twentieth Century – three hundred years…

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