Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at Yale University.

Life

Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff, and sister of composer

Edith Borroff Edith Borroff (August 2, 1925 – March 10, 2019) was an American musicologist and composer. Her compositions include over 60 commissioned works, including pieces for the stage; for her primary instrument—the organ; choral, vocal, and orchestral ...

. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946,"Class News", ''The University of Chicago Magazine''
/ref> and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale. In 1965, she was the first woman appointed to be an English professor. She retired in 1994. An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.

Works

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References

External links

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1-19)", ''Norton Anthology of English Literature''
on Wallace Stevens focusing on the poem

The Auroras of Autumn ''The Auroras of Autumn'' is a 1950 book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. The book of poems contains the long poem of 10 cantos by Stevens of the same name. Contents The book features a collection of poems containing also the 1948 Stevens long poem ...

(part of Open Yale Courses).
BorroffReadingGawain.com
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