John E. Booty is historiographer
of the Episcopal Church. He has written or edited several books relevant
to this book’s theme: The Elizabethan Prayer Book (1976), Three
Anglican Divines on Prayer: Jewel, Andrewes, and Hooker(1978), The
Godly Kingdom in Tudor England (1981), The Works of Richard Hooker,
vol. 4 (1982), and John Donne: Divine Poems, Sermons, Meditations, and
Prayers (1990).
Diana Treviño Benet is on the Humanities Faculty at the New School
University. In addition to essays on Milton and other seventeenth-century
authors, she is the author of Secretary of Praise: The Poetic Vocation of George Herbert (Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1984) and Something to Love: The Novels of Barbara Pym (Columbia: University
of Missouri Press, 1986).
William Blissett is Professor Emeritus of English
at University College, University of Toronto where he taught from 1965 to
1987 and edited the University of Toronto Quarterly 1965-76. He has
edited or co-edited several books including Reid MacCallum: Imitation
and Design, Editing Illustrated Books, A Celebration of Ben Jonson, and
The Spenser Encyclopedia. He is the author of The Long Conversation: A Memoir of David Jones and the recipient
of a Craft and Tradition: Essays in Honour of Willliam Blissett.
G. Richmond Bridge is
Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. From
1977 until 1998 he was Chaplain of the University of King’s College, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and Anglican Chaplain of Dalhousie University; he has also served
as rector of parishes in both Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia. He has lectured
in the fields of English Literature and Religious Studies at a number
of universities in both the United States and Canada; he has addressed
many conferences and published numerous articles.
Bryan N. S. Gooch holds a B.A. and M.A. from
the University of British Columbia and a Ph. D. from the University of London;
he also holds an A.R.C.T. from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, and
L.T.C.L. and F.T.C.L. from Trinity College of Music, London. He has
been a faculty member of the University of Victoria since 1964, where he is
currently Professor of English. Also a pianist and conductor, Professor
Gooch has performed in numerous recitals, concerts and CBC broadcasts.
His research has focused on the relationship between poetry and music; he
is the co-editor of four major catalogues of musical settings of–and music
related to–British literature, including the five-volume Shakespeare Music
Catalogue (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991).
Mary Ellen Henley is a doctoral candidate in
English at UBC where she has returned after 36 years as a classroom teacher
whose areas of specialization were English, Choral Music, and Band.
She worked as research assistant to Professor Stanwood on his contribution
to volume 1 of the New CBEL, on the Holy Sonnets volume of the John
Donne Variorum, on his Life of Walton and on other work in progress.
She hopes to receive her degree in the spring of 2001. Her dissertation
is a critical edition of Sir Edwin Sandys’ Europae Speculum.
Wyman H. Herendeen is Professor of English
and Chair of the Department at the University of Houston. He has published
widely in Renaissance studies, including articles on Edmund Spenser, John
Milton, Ben Jonson and on landscape literature, Renaissance libraries, and
historiography. His From Landscape to Literature: The River and the
Myth of Geography (Duquesne, 1986) was awarded Choices’ “Best Academic
Book” designation. He has also taught at the University of Windsor,
where he was Head of the Department, and at the University of Toronto.
W. Speed Hill is Emeritus Professor of English
at the Graduate Center and Lehman College, City University of New York.
He was General Editor of The Folger Library Edition of The Works
of Richard Hooker (7 vols.; 1977-98) and is co-editor of Text: An Interdisciplinary
Annual of Textual Studies.
Kathleen Grant Jaeger has been retired since
1993 from the University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada, where she holds
the honorary rank of Inglis Professor. Earlier she taught in the Departments
of English at the University of British Columbia and at Acadia University.
She has edited three volumes of conference proceedings: Earth and the Mind’s
Eye, The Sense of the Contemporary, and The Idea of the University: 1789–1989,
and published articles on nineteenth-century Catholic fiction, E.M. Forster,
and children’s literature. In collaboration with Baidar Bakht she has
published two volumes of modern Urdu poetry in translation: An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry and Selected Poems of Akhtar-ul-Iman. A third volume, Collected
Poems of Sardar Ali Jaffrey, is forthcoming.
Lee M. Johnson, who completed
his studies at Princeton University, has spent his academic career at the
University of British Columbia where he became a Professor in 1983.
His published works comprise two books on Wordsworth and various articles
on classical, Renaissance, and Romantic poetry.
X. J. Kennedy, a
teaching fellow at the University of Michigan with Paul Stanwood in the 1950s,
was later his colleague at Tufts University. Kennedy’s books include
Nude Descending a Staircase (1961) and Dark Horses (1992), and his textbooks An Introduction to Poetry, Ninth Edition, co-edited with Dana Gioa.
For his poetry, he has received honorary degrees and several awards, most
recenly the Aiken Taylor Award of the University of the South and the Sewanee
Review, and the Year 2000 Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry from
the National Council of Teachers of English.
Louis L. Martz is Sterling Professor of English,
Emeritus, at Yale University. He is the author of five books on seventeenth-century
literature, including The Poetry of Meditation (1954) and Milton,
Poet of Exile (1980, 1986). He served as Chairman of the Editorial
Board for the recently completed Yale Edition of the Complete Works of
St.Thomas More and has published Thomas More: The Search for the Inner
Man (1990). He has also published widely in the field of the twentieth
century, with editions of both the Collected Poems (1983) and the Selected Poems (1986) of H.
D., and an edition of D. H. Lawrence’s Quetzacoatl (1995), the
early version of The Plumed Serpent. His studies in this field
have recently been summed up in his book Many Gods and Many Voices: The
Role of the Prophet in English and American Modernism (1998).
Graham Parry’s first full-time teaching appointment
was at UBC in the 1960’s. Returning to England, he taught at the University
of Leeds and then at the University of York, where he is now Professor of
English. His publications include: The Golden Age Restor’d (1981),
Seventeenth-Century Poetry: the Social Context (1985), the Seventeenth-Century
volume for the Longman Literature in English series (1989), and The Trophies
of Time: English Antiquarians of the 17th Century (1995). On two
occasions he has taught at Doshisha University in Kyoto, and in 1993-94 he
returned to UBC as a Visiting Professor.
Ted–Larry Pebworth is William E. Stirton
Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of
Michigan–Dearborn. He is author of Owen Felltham, and co-author
of Ben Jonson Revised (1999), co-editor of collections of essays on
Herbert, Jonson and the Sons of Ben, Donne, Marvell, the seventeenth-century
religious lyric, poetry and politics in the seventeenth century, Renaissance
discourses of desire, the wit of seventeenth-century poetry, representing
women in the Renaissance, and the English civil wars in the literary imagination.
A senior textual editor and member of the Advisory Board of The Variorum
Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, he has served as president of the
John Donne Society.
John T. Shawcross is Emeritus Professor of
English, University of Kentucky, and the author of various books and articles
on Renaissance literature. Among his studies are Paradise Regain’d: ‘Worthy Not T’Have Remain’d So Long Unsung’ (Duquesne
University Press, 1991) and John Milton: The Self and the World (University
Press of Kentucky, 1993).
Ray
Siemens, who studied under Paul Stanwood in the University
of British Columbia’s Department of English from 1993–97, is Lecturer in English
at Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, BC. From 1997-9 he was Izaak
Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at
the University of Alberta. Editor and founder of the journal Early
Modern Literary Studies, he is also editor of several Renaissance
texts—including an electronic edition of Tottel’s Miscellany (in Ian
Lancashire, et al., eds., Using TACT with Electronic Texts [MLA, 1996])—as
well as editor of a number of collections that deal with the intersection
of literary studies and computing. Recent publications include “The
Works and Life of John Milton: Select Studies and Resources” (in Dennis
Danielson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Milton [Cambridge UP, 1999],
“Disparate Structures,
Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic
Medium, with Reference to Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet” (in
Michael Best, ed., The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium [1998]: 6.1–29),
and “‘As
strayght as ony pole’: Publius Cornelius, Edmund de la Pole, and Contemporary
Court Satire in Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres” Renaissance
Forum 1.2 [1996]: 1–37. His edition, The Lyrics of the Henry
VIII Manuscript, is forthcoming.
Ken Simpson completed his doctorate in 1995
at the University of British Columbia and now teaches seventeenth–century
literature at the University College of the Cariboo in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Milton’s poetry and contemporary science fiction are among his research interests.
Recent publications include “Rhetoric and Revelation: Milton’s use of Sermo
in De Doctrina Christiana” (Studies in Philology 96.3 [1999] 334-47) and “Lingering Voices, Telling
Silences: Silence and the Word in Paradise Regained,” in Milton
Studies XXXV, ed. Albert C. Labriola (Pittsburgh, 1997).
Claude J. Summers, William E. Stirton Professor
in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn,
has published widely on seventeenth- and twentieth-century literature.
Co-editor of collections of essays on a wide variety of Renaissance and seventeenth-century
topics and figures and author of book-length studies of Marlowe, Jonson, Isherwood,
Forster, and twentieth-century English and American gay fiction, he has recently
published an edition of the Selected Poems of Ben Jonson and the Lambda
Award-winning The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. He is a
past president of the John Donne Society and a recipient of the Donne Society
Distinguished Publication Award.
