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Books

Author, The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann (University of South Carolina Press, 2010)

Co-Editor, The Online Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Vol. 2, The Perfect Critic: 1919-1926 (JHUP and Faber, forthcoming)

Articles and Book Chapters

“Evenings at the Phoenix Society.” T. S. Eliot and the Other Arts. Ed. Frances Dickey and John Morgenstern 2014, Forthcoming. (10,000 words)

“The Waste Land’s Afterlife: The Poem’s Reception in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. In The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land. Ed. Gabrielle McIntire. Cambridge UP, 2014. Forthcoming. (6000 words)

“Eliot’s Plays: A Revaluation.” In Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Ed. Jason Harding. Cambridge UP, 2013. Forthcoming. (6000 words)

“Echoes and Transformations: An Introduction to the Poetry of T. S. Eliot” In A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Ed. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Forthcoming. (6000 words)

“W. B. Yeats and a ‘Certain Mystic of the Middle Ages.’” In Julian of Norwich’s Legacy: Medieval Mysticism and Post-Medieval Reception. Ed. Denise Baker and Sarah Salih. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 49-68. (7,621 words)

“The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: T. S. Eliot’s Life.” In A Companion to T. S. Eliot. Ed. David Chinitz. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 3-14. (6,826 words)

“W. B. Yeats and the Turbulent Lives of Painted Horses.” Yeats Annual 17 (2007): 37-50. (5,725 words)

 “‘Crying in Plato’s Teeth’: W. B. Yeats and Platonic Inspiration.” In Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern. Ed. Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner. NY: Brille, 2007. 205-18. (4,627 words)

 “T. S. Eliot’s ‘Forgotten Poet of Lines,’ Nathaniel Wanley.”  ANQ 19: 2 (Spring 2006): 52-8.

 “The Use of Memory: Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and the Unpublished Epigraph to North.”   Journal of Modern Literature. Special Issue: “Poetry, Poetics and Social Discourse,” Ed. Rachel Blau DuPlessis. 28:4 (Summer 2005): 152-175.

 “Who Stood over Eliot’s Shoulder?” Modern Language Quarterly. 66:3 (Sept 2005): 329-364.

“T. S. Eliot’s Etherized Patient.” Twentieth Century Literature. 50 (Winter 2004): 394-420.

 “T. S. Eliot’s Quotation from E. B. Browning: ‘Shadows for my company.’”  Notes & Queries 51 (2004): 164-5.

Reviews of Recent Poetry

“The Irish Bard” Rev of Our Secret Discipline: W. B. Yeats and Lyric Form, Helen Vendler. Washington Post Book World, 20 Apr. 2008, 6.  

“The Slender Mr. Cogito.” Rev. of Collected Poems, 1956-1998, Zbigniew Herbert. The New Criterion (May 2007): 71-73.

 “The Reemergence of a Modern Master.” Rev. of Collected Poems, 1956-1998, Zbigniew Herbert. Washington Post Book World, 29 Apr. 2007, 7.

For the Chautauqua Literary Journal 4 (2007): 160-70.  Rev. of Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee, ed. Ingersoll; Let Me Explain, Gaylord Brewer; Not To: New and Selected Poems, Elaine Terranova.

“What Matters Most.” Rev. of Selected Poems, 1931-2005, Czeslaw Milosz. FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 76 (Spring 2007): 80-91.

“The Beat Goes On.” Rev. of The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan. Washington Post Book World, 3 Dec. 2006, 7.

“What Matters Most.” Rev. of Selected Poems, 1931-2005, Czeslaw Milosz. FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Forthcoming, 2007.

“Large, Impersonal, Flour-White Shoes.” Rev. of Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke Box, Elizabeth Bishop. International Poetry Review 32:1 (Spring 2006): 95-99. 

 “Notes from Underground.” Rev. of District and Circle, Seamus Heaney. Washington Post Book World. 16 April 2006.

“The Haiku Spirit.” Rev. of The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, 1918-1975, ed. Seamus Cooney. The New Criterion. 24:8 (April 2006): 75-78.

For the Chautauqua Literary Journal. 3 (2006): 147-155.
“History’s Stare.” Rev. of Fallen from a Chariot, Kevin Prufer.
 “Enthusiasm Tamed to Metaphor.” Rev. of Chez Nous, Angie Estes.
 “Startled with Bloom.” Rev. of dear good naked morning, Ruth L. Schwartz.

“A Garrulous Creature.” Rev. of Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt, ed. Willard Spiegelman. New Criterion. 24 (January 2006): 75-6.

“What is Unremembered.” Rev. of The Sorrowing House, Genevieve Lehr. CV2 28:3 (Winter 2006): 84-88.

 “The Owl in the Heart.” Rev. of Migrations: New and Selected Poems, W. S. Merwin. FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. 74 (Spring 2006).

“Mary Kinzie’s Bogan.” Rev. of A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings, Louise Bogan, The New Criterion. 24 (November 2005): 76-7.

“Richard Wilbur’s Uncouth Muse.” Rev. of New and Collected Poems, Richard Wilbur. American Book Review [ABR]. (Nov / Dec 2005): 22-3.  

“Among these Silk Screens.” Rev. of Ariel: The Restored Edition, Sylvia Plath. ABR  26:6 (Sept / Oct 2005): 19; 24.  

“Angels Marching into Darkness.” Rev. of In the Salt Marsh, Nancy Willard. ABR 26:4 (May / June 2005): 23. 

“Sheer Genius.” Rev. of Collected Poems, Philip Larkin. ABR 26 (Jan / Feb 2005.): 18.