Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Peter Benson received a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is now a Lecturer in English at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The research for this article was completed with the help of a Visiting Research Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. Jane Donahue Eberwein, Associate Professor of English at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48063, writes on Puritan literature and American poetry; she edited Early American Poetry, a major-figure anthology of poets from Bradstreet through Bryant. A. L. Lazarus, 945 Ward Drive #69, Santa Barbara, California 93111, an editor for American Lives Endowment, has taught at Purdue and the University of Texas. His books include Modern English, a Glossary, the Harbrace Adventures in Literature series, and (with Victor H. Jones) the biography Beyond Graustark (Kennikat Press, 1981). Martha Ronk Lifson, 3722 Marcia Drive, Los Angeles, California 90026, received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968 and has taught at Tufts, Immaculate Heart College (closed 1980), and Occidental College. She has published articles on Milton, autobiography, and women's studies. Her poetry appears in many small magazines. Louis Simpson, P.O. Box 91, Port Jefferson, New York 11777 is the author of eight books of poetry, a novel, an autobiography, and four books of literary criticism. In 1964 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. ...