Jared Ralph Curtis (born 1936) is Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University. Curtis received his BA from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1957, his MA from the

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in 1961 and his PhD from

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in 1966. After jobs at

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and the

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, he joined Simon Fraser University as an associate professor in 1971. From 1979 to 1995 he was professor of English at Simon Fraser. He is internationally known for his work in editing the work and manuscript materials of

William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ' ...

and

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

: he has supervised the

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editions of Wordsworth and Yeats. He is the 2013 recipient of the M. L. Rosenthal Award for distinguished contributions to Yeats studies.

Works

*''Wordsworth's experiments with tradition; the lyric poems of 1802, with texts of the poems based on early manuscripts'', Cornell University Press, 1971. *(ed.) ''Poems in two volumes, and other poems, 1800–1807'', by William Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, 1983. *(ed.) ''The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth'', Bristol Classical Press, 1993; rev. ed., Humanities Ebooks, 2007. *(co-ed.) ''Early Poems and Fragments, 1785–1797'', by William Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, 1997. *(ed.) ''Last Poems, 1821–1850'', by William Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, 1999. *(ed.) ''The Land of Heart's Desire: manuscript materials'', by W. B. Yeats, Cornell University Press, 2002. *(ed.) "Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: manuscript materials, by W. B. Yeats, Cornell University Press, 2008. *"The Cornell Wordsworth: a supplement", Humanities–Ebooks, 2008. *(co-ed.) "The Resurrection: manuscript materials", by W. B. Yeats, Cornell University Press, 2011. *(co-ed.) "On Baile's Strand: manuscript materials", by W. B. Yeats, Cornell University Press,

References

External links

website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Curtis, Jared 1936 births Cornell University alumni Living people Literary critics of English Simon Fraser University faculty American academics of English literature University of Michigan alumni Yale University alumni Indiana University faculty University of Arizona faculty Susquehanna University faculty