Contributors

©UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS 1992 All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce in whole or in part must be obtained in writing from University of Toronto Press The poem 'Oops,' by A.R. Ammons, is published here for the first time. John Hollander, 'The Widener Burying-Ground,' reproduced by permission from John Hollander, The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After. Copyright © 1981 The Regents of the University of California CONTRIBUTORS A.R. AMMONS Poet and Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, Cornell University Recent work: The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons (1991) MARGARET ATWOOD Poet, novelist, essayist Recent work: Cat's Eye (1988); Wilderness Tips (1991); Good Bons (forthcoming) AMY CLAMPITT Poet Recent work: Westward (Knopf 1990); Predecessors, Et Cetera (1991) ELEANOR COOK Professor of English, Victoria College, University of Toronto Recent work: Poetry, Word-Play, and Word-War in Wallace Stevens (1988) ANTIIONY HECHT Poet and University Professor, Georgetown University Recent work: The Collected Earlier Poems (1990); The Transparent Man (1990); The Hidden Law: A Study of the Poetry of W.H. Auden (forthcoming 1993); On the Laws of the Poetic Art: The Andrew Mellon Lectures (forthcoming) JOHN HOLLANDER Poet; A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English, Yale University Recent work: Harp Lake (1988); Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language (1988) GEORGE JOHNSTON Poet Recent work: Endeared by Dark: The Collected Poems (1990) (continued on page 414) CONTRIBUTORS (continued) MAGGIE KILGOUR Assistant Professor of English, McGill University From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation (1990) JAY MACPHERSON Poet and Professor of English, Victoria College, University of Toronto The Boatman (1957); Welcoming Disaster (1974); collected in Poems Twice Told (1981) ANTONINE MAILLET Auteure et Chancelier de l'Universite de Moncton Pelagie-la-Charrette (Prix Goncourt; 1979); La Sagouine (1976); Don L'Orignal (Prix du Gouverneur general; 1977). HERBERT MARKS Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University JAMES MERRILL Poet Recent work: The Changing Light at Sandover is being reissued with a Selected Poems (1992) JAMES REANEY Playwright and Poet Recent work: Performance Poems (1991); The Donnellys (1991) CHRISTOPHER RICKS Professor of English, Boston University Recent work: T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988); editor, The Poems of Ten1lyson (rev 1987) MARIANNE SHAPIRO Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University Recent work: The Poetics of Ariosto (1988); De vulgari eloquentia: Dante's Book of Exile (1990). Coauthored with Michael Shapiro: Figuration ill Verbal Art (1988) MICHAEL SHAPIRO Professor of Slavic Languages, Brown University Recent work: The Sense of Grammar: Language as Semeiotic (1983); The Sense of Change: Language as History (1991) ERNEST J. WEINRIB Professor of Law and Special Lecturer in Classics, University of Toronto Understanding Tort Law (1989); The Spaniards in Rome from Marius to Domitian (1990); Tort Law (1991) ...