Jared Ralph Curtis (born 1936) is Professor Emeritus of English at

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...

Biography

Curtis received his BA from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1957, his MA from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

in 1961, and his PhD from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

in 1966. After working at

Susquehanna University Susquehanna University is a private liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States. Its name is derived from the original Susquehannock settlers of the region. Founded in 1858 as a missionary institute, it became a four-year li ...

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a state university system, system of Public university, public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. The system has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration o ...

, and the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...

, he joined

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 poetry, Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism, Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Balla ...

and

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (, 13 June 186528 January 1939), popularly known as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the ...

: 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.

Retirement

After moving to a senior living community in Seattle, he helped found and served first as Designer and then as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the community newsletter, ''The Mirabella Monthly''. In each of the years 2017-2023, the newsletter received an APEX Award "For Excellence in Publishing" from Communications Concepts: Best Practices in Print, Web & ePublishing. Curtis independently published a book of walks in Seattle in 2014. His poems have appeared in the medical journal ''Pharos'', a publication of the Alpha Omega Honor Medical Society.

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, *''Out from the Center: Seattle Neighborhood Walks'', Lulu, 2014 *“Writing Inside the Envelope,” ''Simon Says'', Summer 2020 Vol XVII No. 2, p. 1

*“Aging Well,” ''Simon Says'', Summer 2021 Vol. XVIII No.

*“Work Order,” ''Simon Says'', Spring 2022 Vol. XIX No.

*“Make Room for Love,” ''Simon Says'', Summer 2022 Vol. XIX No.

*“Haiku Challenge: A Morning at the Ophthalmology Clinic,” ''Simon Says'', Fall 2022 Vol. XIX No.

*“Time Is,” ''Simon Says'', Fall 2022 Vol. XIX No.

*“Giving Mode,” ''Simon Says'', Spring 2023, p.

*“Flight Paths,” ''Simon Says'', Summer 2023, p.

*“Dynamic Perturbations,” ''Simon Says'', Summer 2023, p.

*“Colloquies of crows,” ''Simon Says'', Fall 2023, p. 1

*“A Tea Tale,” ''Simon Says'', Spring 2024, p. 1

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