James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature

Professor Engell's interests center mainly upon British literature from 1660 to 1830, comparative Romanticism, criticism and critical theory, and German and English literature from 1750 to 1830. Representative publications include The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981); Editor, with W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, 2 vols. (London & Princeton, N.J.: Routledge & Kegan Paul and Princeton University Press, 1983), in The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Bollingen Series LXXV, 1969-), Introduction and annotations (paperback edition, complete in one volume, 1984); Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989); Coleridge: The Early Family Letters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994);The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values (Penn State Press, 1999); and "Romantische Poesie: Richard Hurd and Friedrich Schlegel," in Archiv fur das Studium der neuren Sprachen und Literaturen (1993): 6-17 and Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money (University of Virginia Press, 2005).



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