Contributors 467LANGDON HAMMER is Professor of English at Yale University. He is the
author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernismand co-editor of
O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane. Currently he is at
work on a biography of James Merrill.
KATHERINE KEARNS has taught at New York University and Yale
University. She is the author of Robert Frost and the Poetics of Appetite,
Nineteenth-century Literary Realism, and Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and
Feminist Theory.
DAVID BROMWICH is Housum Professor of English at Yale University.
His books include Hazlitt: The Mind of the Critic, Disowned by Memory:
Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s, A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community
from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost, and Skeptical Music.
LOUIS L. MARTZ has taught English at Yale University. His books include
From Renaissance to Baroque, Thomas More: The Search for the Inner Man, and
most recently, Many Gods and Many Voices: The Role of the Prophet in English
and American Modernism.
ANITA PATTERSON is Associate Professor of English at Boston
University. She is the author of From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and
the Politics of Protest. Her many essays on American literature have appeared
in a variety of journals and reviews, including The Journal of Commonwealth
Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Salmagundi, and The Massachusetts
Review.
BONNIE COSTELLO is Professor English at Boston University. She is the
author of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of
Mastery, and Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American
Poetry. She has also written on the poetry of John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens,
Jorie Graham, Amy Clampitt, and Charles Wright.