 Professor of EnglishActing Chair, Department of English (2007-2008) Offices: Hellems 112 (faculty office); Hellems 101C (chair's office) Telephones: 303-492-6032 (faculty office); 303-492-7382 (chair's office) E-mail: Jeffrey.C.Robinson@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Romantic literature; poetics
Education
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1972
M.A., University of Chicago, 1965
A.B., Harvard University, 1964
Publications
Books
Co-ed. with Jerome Rothenberg, Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-Romantic Poetry. Univ. of California Press, forthcoming
Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy and British Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Poetry and Diary: Wordsworth Day by Day: Reading His Work into Poetry Now. Station Hill Press, 2005
Poetry: A Wordsworth Notebook: Moods of My Own Mind and Other Poems from Romanticism. Mellen Poetry Press, 2002
Poetry: Amenia: A Memoir. TreeHouse Press, 2002
Poetry: The Life of Things: Utter Wordsworth. TreeHouse Press, 2001
Co-ed. with Anne Wallace and Roger Gilbert, The Quotable Walker. Breakaway Press, 2000
Co-ed. with Anne Wallace and Roger Gilbert, The Walker's Literary Companion. Breakaway Press, 2000
Reception and Poetics in Keats: My Ended Poet. Macmillan (UK) and St. Martin's Press (USA), 1998
Poetry: Spliced Romanticism. Mellen Poetry Press, 1997
Romantic Presences. Station Hill Press, 1995
The Current of Romantic Passion. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Trans. as Passione e Bellezza: Fenomenologia del Romanticismo. Liguori Editions, 1999
The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1989; second edition, Dalkey Archive Press, 2006
Radical Literary Education: A Classroom Experiment with Wordsworth's "Ode." Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Ed. and rev., Keats: The Myth of the Hero, by Dorothy Van Ghent. Princeton Univ. Press, 1983
Essays
“The Possibility of Improvisation in Romantic Poetry.” The Wordsworth Circle, forthcoming
“Shelley: The Translator.” The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. Ed. Timothy Morton. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006, 104-22
"The Poetics of Expiration: Felicia Hemans." Romanticism on the Net 29-30 (February-May 2003)
"Leigh Hunt: The Poetics and Politics of the Fancy." Leigh Hunt. Ed. Nicholas Roe. Routledge, 2003
"Deforming Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn.'" Romantic Circle Praxis Series (October 2003)
"'My First Acquaintance with Poets': Hazlitt's Autobiography of a Cultural Critic." Romanticism, 6.2 (2000): 178-94
"Passion and Romantic Poetics." Romantic Praxis (World Wide Web), 1998
"'My Ended Poet': Poetic Tributes to Keats, 1821-1994." Studies of Romanticism 34 (1995): 441-69
"The Power of Sound: Wordsworth's 'Unremitting Voice of Nightly Streams'." The Wordsworth Circle 23 (1992), 176-79
"Epipsychidion and Romantic Passion Love." Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Poetry. Ed. Spencer Hall.. MLA, 1990, 96-99.
"A Late Poem by Wordsworth to 'Emma'." Philological Quarterly (Summer 1985): 406-16
"Melville Cane: The Expressionist Spirit." Columbia Library Columns 30 (February 1981): 25-35
"The Immortality Ode: Lionel Trilling and Helen Vendler." The Wordsworth Circle (Winter 1981)
"Lionel Trilling and the Romantic Tradition." The Massachusetts Review, 20 (Summer 1979): 211-36
"Lionel Trilling: A Bibliographic Essay." Resources for American Literary Study 8 (Fall 1978): 131-56
"Introducing Wordsworth to Students in Colorado." The Wordsworth Circle 9 (Autumn 1978): 335-37
"Coleridge Marginalia." Notes & Queries 25 (June 1978): 221-22
"The Structure of Wordsworth's Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803." Papers on Language and Literature 13 (Winter 1977): 54-70
"The Role of Comparison in Homeric Thought." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 30 (Autumn 1976): 181-204
"Keats' 'Morbidity of Temperament'." Notes & Queries 23 (October 1976): 453-54
"Dante's Paradiso and Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'." Keats-Shelley Journal, 25 (1976): 13-15
"The Prelude, Book XIV, and the Problem of Concluding." Criticism 16 (Fall 1974): 301-10
"An Unpublished Letter of William Wordsworth to Henry Robinson of York." The Wordsworth Circle 5 (Winter 1974): 15-16
"Celebration: The Lyric Poetry of Melville Cane." The American Scholar 38 (Spring 1969): 286-96
Poems
Poems published in Sniper Logic, La Questione Romantica, Many Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, and "for immediate release"
Selected honors and awards
Hazel Barnes Prize for distinction in scholarhsip and teaching, CU Boulder, 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2003-04
Faculty Fellowships, CU Boulder, 1975, 1980-81, 1986-87, 2000-01
Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, 1995-96
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1992
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1982, 1984
Current projects
O Taste and See: A Primer for Reading Poetry (book)
Sparks of the Romantic: Selected Works of Jeffrey Robinson (book)
Improvisational Poetics among the Romantics (book)
"The Fancy" (article)