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'''Edward Mendelson''' is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at [[Columbia University]].<ref name="Jones">{{cite web
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He is the [[literary executor]] of the Estate of [[W. H. Auden]] and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work, including ''Early Auden'' (1981) and ''Later Auden'' (1999).<ref>{{cite book
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Among the volumes by W. H. Auden that he has edited are Auden's ''Collected Poems'' (1976; 2nd edn. 1990; 3rd edn., 2007), ''The English Auden'' (1977), ''Selected Poems'' (1979, 2nd edn., 2007), ''As I Walked Out One Evening'' (selected light verse, 1995), and the continuing ''Complete Works of W. H. Auden'' (1986- ).
His work on [[Thomas Pynchon]] includes ''Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays'' (1978) and numerous essays, including "The Sacred, the Profane, and ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]'' (1975; reprinted in the 1978 collection) and "Gravity's Encyclopedia" (in ''Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon,'' ed. by David Leverenz and George Levine, 1976). The latter essay established the widely-used critical category of "encyclopedic narrative, which he further described in another essay, "Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon" (''MLN,'' vol. 91, 1976). <ref>{{cite web
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He is the editor of annotated editions of novels by [[Thomas Hardy]], [[George Meredith]], [[Arnold Bennett]], [[H. G. Wells]], and [[Anthony Trollope]]. With Michael Seidel he co-edited ''Homer to Brecht; The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions'' (1977).
He is a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{cite web
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Before he went to Columbia, he was an associate professor of English at [[Yale University]] and a visiting associate professor of English at [[Harvard University]].
Since 1986 he has written about computing, software, and typography and is a contributing editor of ''[[PC Magazine]].''<ref name="Jones"/>
==Popular Culture==
In the film ''Into My Heart'' (1997) the character of Professor Mendelkern referred to by Ben Hawks (Rob Morrow) is said to be based on Mendelson.
In [[Alexander McCall Smith]]'s novel ''[[The Right Attitude to Rain]]'' (2006), the main character exchanges letters with Mendelson about W.H. Auden and Robert Burns.
==Honors, Fellowships, and Grants==
* Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], since 2003.
* Fellow of the [http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc English Association], since 2003.
* [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] Fellowship, 1986‐1987.
* [[American Council of Learned Societies]] Fellowship, 1986‐1987 (declined).
* [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1980‐1981.
* [[A. Whitney Griswold]] Fund award, Yale University, 1979.
* [http://www.nhinet.org/ National Humanities Institute] Fellowship at the University of Chicago, 1977‐1978 (declined).
* [[A. Whitney Griswold]] Fund award, Yale University, 1976.
* [[American Council of Learned Societies]] Fellowship, 1974‐1975.
* Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 1974‐1975 (declined).
* National Defense Education Act Fellowship for Graduate Study, The Johns Hopkins University, 1966‐1969.
==Professional Activities==
* Literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden.
* Outside consultant to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] Supplement.
* Board of Guarantors, [http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/ Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America], 2007‐ .
* [http://www.unige.ch/ieug/ressources/archives/fonds/SEC.html Société Européenne de Culture], member since 1971.
* Academy of Literary Studies, member since 1982.
* MLA Division Executive Committee, Twentieth‐Century British Literature, member, 1985‐1989; chairman, 1988.
* MLA Committee on Educational Software, 1987‐1989.
* MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technology in Teaching and Research, 1989‐1990.
* Selection committees for the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]; [[American Council of Learned Societies]]; [[Richard Ellmann]] Lectures in Modern Literature, [[Emory University]]; [[Rockefeller Foundation]] Fellowships at the 92nd Street [[YMHA#History|YM‐YWHA]], New York; judge for Twentieth Century Literature essay prize; and others.
* External examiner, [[Wesleyan University]], [[City University of New York]] Graduate Center, Howard University; and elsewhere.
* Outside reader for [[Yale University Press]], [[Harvard University Press]], [[Princeton University Press]], [[Oxford University Press]], [[Cambridge University Press]], [[University of California Press]], [[University of Chicago Press]], [[Cornell University Press]], [[Faber & Faber]], [[PMLA]], and other presses and journals.
==Education==
* Ph.D., [[The Johns Hopkins University]], 1969
* B.A., [[The University of Rochester]], 1966
==Publications==
''Monographs and Collections of Essays''
* ''Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Edited in collaboration with Michael Seidel.
* ''[[Thomas Pynchon#works|Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays]]''. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice‐Hall, 1978. Edited with an introduction.
* ''Early Auden''. New York: The Viking Press, 1981. London: Faber & Faber, 1981. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983 (revised paperback edition); London: Faber & Faber, 1999 (revised paperback edition). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 (revised paperback edition). Finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Criticism, 1981.
* ''Later Auden''. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999; London: Faber & Faber, 1999; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 (revised paperback edition).
* ''The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have To Say About the Stages of Life''. New York: Pantheon, 2006; with new afterword, Anchor Books, 2007 (forthcoming). Translated into Korean (forthcoming) and Complex Chinese (forthcoming)
===Editions, Bibliography, Exhibition Catalogue===
* W. H. Auden: ''A Bibliography'', 1924‐1969. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972. With B. C. Bloomfield.
* W. H. Auden. ''Forewords and Afterwords''. New York: Random House, 1973. London: Faber & Faber, 1973. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
* Thomas Hardy. ''The Well‐Beloved''. London: Macmillan, 1975. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976. London: Macmillan, 1985 (corrected paperback). (New Wessex Edition, introduction by J. Hillis Miller.)
* ''W. H. Auden 1907‐1973: An Exhibition from the Berg Collection''. New York: The New York Public Library and Readex Books, 1976.
* W. H. Auden. ''Collected Poems''. London: Faber & Faber, 1976. New York: Random House, 1976. Revised edition: New York: Vintage Books, 1991;
* London: Faber & Faber, 1991. Further revised edition with a new prefatory note: New York: Modern Library, 2007; London: Faber & Faber 2007.
* W. H. Auden. ''The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings'', 1927‐1939. London: Faber & Faber, 1977. New York: Random House, 1978. London: Faber & Faber, 1986 (paperback edition).
* W. H. Auden. ''Selected Poems: New Edition''. New York: Vintage Books, 1978. London: Faber & Faber, 1978. New York: Vintage Books, 1990 (reissue). Preface reprinted as “Auden’s Revision of Modernism” in ''Modern Critical Views: W. H. Auden'', ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 111‐20; translated into Japanese in Oden Shishu, ed. Masao Nakagiri (Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1993), pp. 198‐211; excerpts translated into French in the program of the production by Chatelet: Théâtre Musical de Paris of Stravinsky’s ''The Rake’s Progress'', 28 September ‐ 12 October 1996.
* W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. ''Plays, and Other Dramatic Writings by W. H. Auden'', 1928‐1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. London: Faber & Faber, 1989. First volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
* Arnold Bennett. ''Riceyman Steps and Elsie and the Child''. London: Penguin Books, 1991. Edited with Robert Squillace.
* W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. ''Libretti, and Other Dramatic Writings by W. H. Auden, 1939‐1973''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. London: Faber & Faber, 1993. Second volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
* W. H. Auden. ''The Prolific and the Devourer''. Hopewell, N. J.: Ecco Press, 1993.
* W. H. Auden. ''Tell Me the Truth About Love''. New York: [[Vintage Books]], 1994; London: Faber & Faber, 1994.
* W. H. Auden. ''As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse''. New York: Vintage Books; London: Faber & Faber 1995.
* W. H. Auden. ''Prose, Volume I, 1926‐1938''. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, 1997. Third volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
* George Meredith. ''The Ordeal of Richard Feverel''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.
* Lewis Carroll. ''Lewis Carroll''. New York: Sterling, 2000. (Poetry for Young People.)
* W. H. Auden. ''Prose, Volume II, 1939‐1948''. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, 2002. Fourth volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
* Edward Lear. ''Edward Lear''. New York: Sterling, 2001. (Poetry for Young People.)
* ''W. H. Auden’s Book of Light Verse''. New York: New York Review Books, 2004.
* H. G. Wells. ''Tono‐Bungay''. London, New York: Penguin, 2005.
* Anthony Trollope. ''Barchester Towers''. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005.
* W. H. Auden. ''Selected Poems: Expanded Edition''. New York: Vintage Books; London: Faber & Faber, 2007.
* W. H. Auden. ''Prose, Volume III, 1949‐1955''. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, 2007. Fifth volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
* W. H. Auden. ''Prose, Volume IV, 1956‐1963''. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Faber & Faber, (in preparation). Sixth volume of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden.
===Essays===
* "The Coherence of Auden's ''The Orators''". ''ELH'', 35 (March 1968), 114-33.
* "How to Read Berryman's ''Dream Songs''". ''American Poetry Since 1960'', ed. Robert B. Shaw. Cheadle, Cheshire: Carcanet, 1973, pp. 29 43. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: John Berryman, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1989), pp. 53-69.
* "The Sacred, the Profane, and ''The Crying of Lot 49''". ''Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Literature'', ed. Kenneth H. Baldwin and David K. Kirby. Durham: Duke University Press, 1975, pp. 182-222. Revised version in ''Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays'' (see above), pp. 112-46.
* "The Writings of Mstislav Bogdanovich". ''TLS'', 19 December 1975, p. 1515.
* "Gravity's Encyclopedia". ''Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon'', ed. George Levine and David Leverenz. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976, pp. 161-95. Reprinted in ''Modern Critical Views: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow'', ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 29-52.
* "In the Meshes of the Networks". ''TLS'', 25 June 1976, pp. 784-86.
* "Editing Auden". ''New Statesman'', 92 (17 September 1976), 376-77.
* "The Auden-Isherwood Collaboration". ''Twentieth Century Literature'', 22 (October 1976), 276-85.
* "Encyclopedic Narrative, from Dante to Pynchon". ''MLN'', 91 (December 1976), 1267-75.
* "''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' and ''Endgame''". ''Homer to Brecht''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977, pp. 336-52.
* "The Poetry of John Fuller". ''New Republic'', 176 (28 May 1977), 32-35.
* "Authorized Biography and Its Discontents". ''Harvard English Studies'', 6 (1978), 9-26.
* "Possum Pastoral". ''Yale Review'', 67 (Spring 1978), 470-80.
* "Mstislav Bogdanovich on Hendrijk De Stijl" (with David Bromwich). ''TLS'', 21 April 1978, pp. 440-41.
* "Introduction". ''The W. H. Auden - Chester Kallman Collection at the Athens College Library.'' Athens: Athens College, 1981, unpaged.
* "W. H. Auden". ''American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies'', supplement II, Part 1, ed. A. Walton Litz. New York: Scribner's, 1981, pp. 1-28.
* "Post-modern Vanguard". ''London Review of Books'', 3 (3-16 September 1981), 9-10. Essay review on ''After the Wake'', by Christopher Butler.
* "The OED in Review". ''Yale Review'', 72 (Summer 1983), ix-xxi.
* "Picking Through the Wreckage". ''TLS'', 26 August 1983, p. 901. Essay-review on ''An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Modernism'', by Alistair Davies.
* "Introduction". ''W. H. Auden: Five Poems''. Athens, Ohio: Labyrinth Editions, 1983, unpaged.
* "The Rise and Transformation of Modern Style: A Polemical History". ''Précis'' (Columbia University School of Architecture), 5 (Fall 1984), 93-97.
* "John Fuller". ''Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960''. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985, pp. 144-51.
* "Joris-Karl Huysmans". ''European Writers: The Romantic Century'', vol. 7, ed. Jacques Barzun. New York: Scribner's, 1985, pp. 1709-30.
* "Baedeker's Universe". ''Yale Review'', 74 (Spring 1985), 386-403.
* "Word Processing: A Guide for the Perplexed". ''Yale Review'', 74 (Summer 1985), 615-40.
* "The Death of Mrs. Dalloway: Two Readings". ''Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading'', ed. Mary Ann Caws. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986, pp. 272-80.
* "Introduction". ''W. H. Auden, Three Unpublished Poems''. New York: New York Public Library, 1986, unpaged.
* "Word Processing: A Continuing Guide for the Perplexed". ''Yale Review'', 75 (Spring 1986), 454-80.
* "The Fading Coal vs. the Gothic Cathedral, or, What to do About an Author Both Forgetful and Deceased". ''Text'', 3 (1987), 409-16.
* "Caught in the War of Words". ''TLS'', 16 January 1987, pp. 63-64. Essay review on ''Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War'', ed. by Valentine Cunningham; ''Collected Writings'', by John Cornford; ''Scenes and Actions and Collected Poems'', by Christopher Caudwell. Cf. letter, 20 March 1987, p. 297.
* "Rothman Salazar on 'Historicizing Phrenology: Wordsworth, Pynchon, and the Discursive Economy of the Cranial Text'" (pseudonymous, in collaboration with David Bromwich). ''Raritan'', 8 (Summer 1988), 80-91.
* "Loose Canons". ''London Review of Books'', 10 (23 June 1988), 12-14. Essay-review on ''History and Value'', by Frank Kermode, and ''British Writers of the Thirties'', by Valentine Cunningham.
* "Diary". ''London Review of Books'', 10 (27 October 1988), 29. On the debate over the new edition of ''Ulysses''.
* "Larkin's Eggs". ''New Republic'', 200 (5 June 1989), 29-33.
* "Auden's Doubleness". ''Morphologies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture in Honor of Nathan Scott'', ed. by Mary Gerhart and Anthony C. Yu. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990, pp. 309-17.
* "Levity's Rainbow". ''New Republic'', 203 (9-16 July 1990), 40-46. On ''Vineland'', by Thomas Pynchon.
* "How Computers Can Damage Your Prose". ''TLS'', 22 February 1991, p. 28. Translated in ''Vinduet'' (Oslo), no. 2, 1991, pp. 59-61; ''Weekendavisen Boger'' (Copenhagen), 25 April-2 May 1991, p. 16; ''Allt om Böcker'' (Stockholm), no. 3, 1991, p. 31; and ''La Stampa'' (Turin), date unknown.
* "The Claims of History and the Two Audens". ''Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation'', ed. by George Bornstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991, pp. 157-70.
* "Oedipa and the Cristeros". ''Pynchon Notes'', 32-33 (Spring-Fall 1993), 186-87.
* "The Oxford English Dictionary in the Square and the Round". ''Yale Review'', 81 (October 1993), 111-23.
* "The Making of Auden's 'Hymn for St Cecilia's Day'". ''On Mahler and Britten: Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his Seventieth Birthday'', edited by Philip Reed (Aldeburgh Studies in Music). Aldeburgh: Britten-Pears Library and the Boydell Press, 1995, pp. 176-82.
* "Preface". ''Pynchon, Malta, and Wittgenstein'', edited by Petra Bianchi, Arnold Cassola, and Peter Saerracino Inglott. Valetta: Malta University Publishers, 1995, pp. vi-vii.
* "We are Changed by What We Change: The Power Politics of Auden's Revisions". ''Romanic Review'', 86 (May 1995), 527-35.
* "Not Such a Fantasy". ''TLS'', 3 November 1995, p. 22. Essay-review on Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood.
* "Introduction". ''Gravity's Rainbow'', by Thomas Pynchon. London: Everyman's Library (publication indefinitely postponed for copyright reasons).
* "The Word & the Web". ''New York Times Book Review'', 2 June 1996, p. 35; reprinted in ''Patterns for College Writing'', 7th ed., ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell (New York: St. Martin's, 1998), and in ''The Practical Guide to Writing'', 8th ed., ed. Sylvan Barnet, Marcia Stubbs, and Pat Bellanca (New York: Longman, 1999).
* "How Lawrence Corrected Wells; How Orwell Refuted Lawrence". ''High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939'', edited by Maria Di Battista and Lucy McDiarmid. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 166-75.
* "Revision and Power: The Example of W. H. Auden". ''Yale French Studies'', 89 (1996), 103-12.
* "Auden and Opera". ''Forty-ninth Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts'', 7-23 June 1996 [programme book], pp. 158-62.
* "Auden, From Parable to Myth". ''Yale Review''', 87 (January 1999), 26-36.
* "Tenativities and Inconclusions". ''There'' Are ''Kermodians: A Liber Amicorum for Frank Kermode'', edited by Anthony Holden and Ursula Owen. London, Everyman, 1999, pp. 132-37.
* "Preface". ''Paradoxical Feminism: The Novels of Rebecca West'', by Ann Norton. Lanham, Maryland International Scholars Publications, 2000.
* "W. H. Auden: From Myth to Parable". ''Myth and Meaning'', William J. Conklin and Mary Jean Irion, editors. New York: Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, 2001, pp. 33-38.
* "Class, Childbirth and Murder: Auden in the 1940s". ''W. H. Auden Nel Trentenniale della scomparsa'' (1993-2003), a cura di Tiziana Morosetti. Palermo: Ila Palma, 2004, pp. 17 33.
* "Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973)". ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', ed. H. G. C. Matthews and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 921-28.
* "Preface". ''W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse''. New York: New York Review Books, 2004 pp. vii-xxi. First printed as [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17325 "Light and Outrageous",] ''New York Review of Books'', 51.13 (12 August 2004), 52-54.
* "The European Auden". ''Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden'', edited by Stan Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 55-67.
* "Introduction". H. G. Wells, ''Tono-Bungay''. London: Penguin, 2005, pp. xiv-xxvii.
* "Introduction". Anthony Trollope, ''Barchester Towers''. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005, pp. xiii-xxix.
* "A Note on Auden". W. H. Auden. ''Collected Poems''. New York: Modern Library; London: Faber & Faber, 2007, pp. xvii-xix.
* [http://www.lctreview.org/article.cfm?id_article=31521284&page=1&id_issue=10018106 "Clarissa Dalloway Remembers Cymbeline".] ''Lincoln Center Theater Review'', Fall 2007, p. 17.
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20875 "Auden and God".] ''New York Review of Books'', 6 December 2007, p. 70-75.
===Reviews===
* ''The Other Side of Silence'', by Jerzy Peterkiewicz. Yale Review, 40 (Autumn 1970), xviii xx.
* ''W. H. Auden'', by George T. Wright; W. H. Auden, by Dennis Davison; The Later Auden, by George W. Bahlke. ''Yearbook of English Studies'', 2 (1972), 337 39.
* ''Plastic Sense'', by Malcolm de Chazal. ''Yale Review'', 41 (Summer 1972), xvii xviii.
* ''The Case of the Helmeted Airman: A Study of W. H. Auden, by Fran‡ois Duchene''. Yale Review, 42 (Spring 1973), xiv xvi.
* ''Gravity's Rainbow'', by Thomas Pynchon. ''Yale Review'', 42 (Summer 1973), 632 41. ("Pynchon's Gravity"). Reprinted in ''Modern Critical Views: Thomas Pynchon'', ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 15-21.
* ''The New Polytheism'', by David L. Miller. ''Drew Gateway'', 46 (1975), 147 51.
* ''Eight Contemporary Poets'', by Calvin Bedient. ''Journal of Modern Literature'', 4 (1975), 969 70.
* ''Thomas Pynchon'', by Joseph Slade. TLS, 13 June 1975, p. 666. ("Rainbow Corner")
* ''Man's Place: An Essay on Auden'', by Richard Johnson. ''Yearbook of English Studies'', 6 (1976), 336 38.
* ''The Ironic Harvest: English Poetry in the Twentieth Century'', by Geoffrey Thurley. ''Journal of Modern Literature'', 5 (1976), 638 39.
* ''News for Everyman: Radio and Foreign Affairs in Thirties America'', by David Culbert. ''Yale Review'', 46 (Spring 1977), v xii.
* ''Children of the Sun'', by Martin Green. ''New Statesman'', 93 (27 May 1977), 715 16. ("Not So Dandy")
* ''Literature and Politics in Modern Britain'', by George Watson. ''New Statesman'', 94 (16 September 1977), 373 74. ("Mirrors for Magistrates")
* ''The Poetry of the Thirties'', by A. T. Tolley. ''Journal of Modern Literature'', 6 (1977), 533 34.
* ''The Poetry of Civic Virtue'', by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. ''Journal of Religion'', 58 (January 1978), 80 82.
* ''John Ashbery'', by David Kermani [and three other bibliographical studies]. ''TLS'', 27 January 1978, p. 99. ("The Rise of the Reference Guide")
* ''The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse'', ed. Kingsley Amis. ''Sewanee Review'', 87 (Spring 1979), 320 25. ("Light Occasions")
* ''The State of the Language'', ed. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks. ''Yale Review'', 70 (Autumn 1980), vii ix.
* ''Pynchon: The Voice of Ambiguity'', by Thomas H. Schaub. ''Pynchon Notes'', 7 (October 1981), 43 48.
* ''Comparative Criticism'' 1, ed. [[Elinor Shaffer]]. ''Modern Language Review'', 77 (January 1982), 132 34.
* ''Old Glory: An American Voyage'', by Jonathan Raban; ''No Particular Place to Go'', by Hugo Williams. ''London Review of Books'', 4 (18 February 3 March 1982), 15 16. ("An American Romance")
* ''Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir'', by Eileen Simpson. ''Washington Post Book World'', 27 June 1982, pp. 1 2.
* ''Essays on Fiction 1971-1982'', by Frank Kermode. ''Sunday Times'' (London), 16 October 1983, p. 43.
* ''Freshwater'', by Virginia Woolf (New York University Theater). ''TLS'', 11 November 1983, p. 1248. ("A Family Romance")
* ''Flying to Nowhere'', by John Fuller. ''The New York Times Book Review'', 4 March 1984, p. 9.
* ''Poets in Residence'' (on the Poets' Corner in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine). ''TLS'', 29 June 1984, p. 728.
* ''Slow Learner: Early Stories'', by Thomas Pynchon. ''New Republic'', 16 & 23 July 1984, pp. 36 39. ("How Gravity Began")
* ''The Art of New York'', by Peter Conrad. ''TLS'', 21 September 1984, p. 1050. ("On Pinions Free")
* ''In Search of a Past'', by Ronald Fraser. ''The New York Times Book Review'', 17 February 1985, p. 12.
* ''Mikhail Bakhtin'', by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist. ''Critical Texts'', 3 (Winter 1986), 18 20.
* ''Journals 1939-1983 and Collected Poems 1928-1985'', by Stephen Spender. ''Boston Sunday Globe'', 26 January 1986, pp. 51, 53.
* "Augustus Saint-Gaudens", exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ''TLS'', 25 April 1986, p. 449. ("Monuments to Individuality")
* ''Less Than One'', by Joseph Brodsky. ''Washington Post Book World'', 25 May 1986, p. 7. ("Against the Limits of Language")
* ''The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Modern Thought'', by Sanford Schwartz. ''Journal of Religion'', 67 (January 1987), 130-33.
* ''Death-Watch: A Novel'', by Jacques Brault. Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, 38 (July-December 1987), 97-98.
* ''Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing'', by Michael Heim. New Republic, 198 (22 February 1988), 36-39. ("The Corrupt Computer")
* ''The Government of the Tongue'', by Seamus Heaney. ''TLS'', 1-7 July 1988, p. 726. ("Poetry as Fate and Faith")
* ''Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography'', by Dan H. Laurence. ''Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography'', new ser. 2 (1988), 86-89.
* ''Hunting Mr. Heartbreak'', by Jonathan Raban. ''Daily Telegraph'', 29 December 1990, Weekend section, p. XII. ("Content to be Someone Else")
* ''Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power'', by John Dugdale. ''American Literature'', 64 (December 1992), 842-44.
* ''Dewey Defeats Truman'', by Thomas Mallon. ''TLS'', 25 July 1997, p. 22. ("The President That Never Was")
* ''Opened Ground'', by Seamus Heaney, and ''Seamus Heaney'', by Helen Vendler. ''The New York Times Book Review'', 20 December 1998, pp. 10-11. ("Digging Down")
* ''The Strength of Poetry'', by James Fenton. ''The New York Times Book Review'', 15 July 2001, p. 10. ("The Personal is Poetical")
===Bibliographies, Notes, Obituaries, etc.===
* Minor Poetry 1835-1870. ''New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969, cols. 599-644. Signed by R. M. Gollin but compiled by E.M. as research assistant.
* A Poem Attributed to W. H. Auden. ''The Library'', 5th ser., 25 (December 1970), 350-53. With B. C. Bloomfield.
* Bibliographies [and] Poetry: General Works. ''New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972, cols. 1-4 and 131-50.
* Auden's use of "Apolitical" (Noun) and "Navaho" (Verb). ''Notes & Queries'', new ser. 26 (August 1979), 343-44.
* Addenda to Bloomfield and Mendelson ''W. H. Auden: A Bibliography''. ''The Library'', 6th ser., 4 (March 1982), 75-79. With B. C. Bloomfield.
* W.H. Auden: A Bibliographical Supplement. ''W. H. Auden: "The Map of All my Youth" (Auden Studies 1)'', ed. Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. 203-36.
* John Auden. ''The Independent'', London, 26 January 1991, p. 12.
* Interviews, Dialogues, and Conversations with W. H. Auden: A Bibliography. ''W. H. Auden: "The Language of Learning and the Language of Love" (Auden Studies 2)'', ed. Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 187-277.
* Published Letters by W. H. Auden: A Bibliography. ''"In Solitude, For Company": W. H. Auden After 1940 (Auden Studies 3)'', ed. Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 289-326.
* Frequent contributions to ''The W. H. Auden Society Newsletter'', 1988- .
===Lectures and conferences===
* "Auden's Poetic of the Body." American Academy of Religion, Washington, 26 October 1974.
* "Auden: The World and the Text." University of Minnesota, 5 May 1975.
* "The Styles of Gravity's Rainbow." Popular Culture Association, Milwaukee, 28 May 1975.
* "Encyclopedic Narrative." Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 28 December 1975.
* "Memory, Body, Audience: Auden's Civil Poetics." Swarthmore College, 19 March 1977.
* "Modernism and Its Alternatives." Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, New York, 5 February 1978.
* "The Dog Beneath the Skin: A Lesson in History." University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of Drama, 9 March 1978.
* "Auden: The Augustan Mode." Modern Language Association, New York, 28 December 1978.
* "The Ethics of Literature." Virginia Commonwealth University, 4 April 1979.
* "Auden's Traditions." University of Maryland, 10 December 1980.
* "Why Novels End, and Where." Modern Language Association, Houston, 28 December 1980.
* "Why Modernism Ended." Columbia University, 3 April 1982.
* Moderator, panel discussion on American architecture. Columbia University School of Architecture, 29 November 1982.
* "Auden: Restoring the Order." Princeton University, 29 September 1983; The Citadel, 3 November 1983; University of Toronto, 17 November 1983.
* Moderator, panel discussion on "Auden's Legacy." New York Institute for the Humanities, 20 October 1983.
* "How Literature Teaches: Homer, Pynchon, and Others." Adelphi University, Groves Memorial Lecture, 8 March 1984.
* "Place and Time." Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, New York, conference on "Symbolic Process in Architecture," 7 October 1984.
* "The Fading Coal vs. the Gothic Cathedral, or, What to Do About an Author Both Forgetful and Deceased." Modern Language Association, Washington, 28 December 1984.
* "Metaphors of the Miraculous." Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 5 March 1985; Université de Dijon, 11 March 1985.
* "The Crying of Lot 49 and the Novelistic Foreground." Lecture-workshop for Professors of English in France, Hôtel Talleyrand, Paris, 8 March 1985.
* "Biography as Criticism." 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York, 24 November 1985.
* "Auden's Guilt and the Shape of a Life." The Johns Hopkins University, Tudor and Stuart Club, 10 April 1987.
* "Auden in America." Aldeburgh Festival, 11 June 1988.
* "The Ascent of F6." BBC Radio 3, "Third Ear," 17 June 1988.
* "Auden in the Forties: Class, Childbirth, and Murder." University of New Hampshire, 13 October 1988.
* Moderator, MLA Twentieth-Century Literature Division panel, "British Writers View the World Beyond Europe." * Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 28 December 1988.
* "Poets as the Poet's Resource." Academy of American Poets, New York, 3 April 1989.
* Participant, A Tribute to W. H. Auden, Poetry Society of America, 4 April 1991.
* Participant, Palimpsest: Conference on Editorial Theory in the Humanities, University of Michigan, 15-16 November 1991.
* "Childbirth and Murder: Auden in the Forties." New York University Seminar on Modernism and Postmodernism, 8 March 1994.
* "'We are Changed by What We Change': The Power Politics of Auden's Revisions." From Manuscripts to Text: Genetic Criticism and Literary Studies, Franco-American Colloquium, Columbia University, 8-10 April 1994.
* "Poems as Persons." Concords and Discords in Contemporary Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Sir Frank Kermode, University of Houston, 4-5 March 1995.
* "The Rake's Philosophy." Opera Festival of New Jersey, 14 July 1996.
* "Why Novels End." Phi Beta Kappa Address, Columbia University School of General Studies, 16 May 1997.
* Panelist, "'Snowballs Have Flown their Arcs . . .': A Discussion of Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon." The New School, New York, 19 June 1997.
* "Listening to Pynchon." Brian Stonehill Memorial Lecture in Anglo-American Literary Relations, King's College, London, 15 May 1998.
* "Rereading Auden." BBC Radio 3, 1 October 1998.
* "Class, Childbirth, and Murder: Auden in the 1940s." New York Public Library, 2 February 1999.
* "Later Auden." Poetry Project, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, New York, 6 May 1999.
* "On Auden." The Connection, WBUR, Boston, 24 May 1999.
* "Biography and Necessity." 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York, 23 January 2000.
* "Commitment or Myth." Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, New York, 5 February 2000.
* "Jane Eyre's Body and Tess Durbeyfield's Fate." Yale University, 12 April 2000; Columbia University Dean's Day, 15 April 2000.
* "A Marriage of True Minds." Christopher Isherwood: Private Faces, The Huntington, 2 December 2000.
* "Necessity and Freedom in Biography." Yale University, 21 February 2002.
* Keynote speaker, Conferenza-dibattito nel trentennale della morte di W. H. Auden, Universit... Roma Tre, 9 January 2003.
* "Childbirth, Murder, and the Shape of Auden's Biography." The Hawthornden Anglo-American Lecture 2003, The Royal Society of Literature, London, 25 September 2003. Also at the New York Society Library, 27 May 2004.
* ''Critics and Brunch'' series lecture. 92nd Street YM-YWHA, 13 February 2005.
* "Death and the Mountain", "Auden and the Truthful Artifice of Opera", "Paul Bunyan: How to Outgrow a Myth." Dartington International Summer School, Totnes, UK, 26 and 28 July, 1 August 2005.
* "Chester Kallman: Works and Life." Symposium, "Three Maverick Poets," Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, 27 October 2005.
* "Yeats, Eliot, and Auden." Series of lecture-seminars. 92nd Street YM-YWHA, 5, 12, and 26 February 2006.
* "Innovation and Effacement: Alexander Polzin, 'The Age of Anxiety.'" Goethe-Institut, New York, 6 April 2006.
* "Between the Acts and the End of Things." New York Institute for the Humanities, 6 October 2006.
* "Four Novels by Virginia Woolf." Series of lecture-seminars. 92nd Street YM-YWHA, 22 October - 12 November 2006.
* Broadcasts on the W. H. Auden centenary: National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," 21 February 2007, and "Leonard Lopate," 5 March 2007; WBAI, "Nonfiction," 23 February 2007; CBC Radio, "Writers and Company," 25 February 2007; BBC Radio 4, 3 April 2007; and others.
* "Authorship, Production, and the Motives of Auden's Guilt." Fordham University, 17 October 2006; Emory University, 12 April 2007.
* "W. H. Auden and the Case of the Inventive Conscience." Emory University Library, 12 April 2007; John U. Nef Lecture, University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, 3 May 2007.
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* "The Poetics of Literary History." Literary Histories of Literature, Columbia University, 26 October 2007.
* "The Secret Diplomacy of Novel-Editing." Editorial Institute, Boston University, 7 November 2007.
* "Author's Rights and Readers' Expectations." Editorial Institute, Boston University, 8 November 2007.
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* Guest lecturer or instructor in courses at Cambridge University, Princeton University, Harvard University, Swarthmore College, and elsewhere.
===Miscellaneous===
* Reviews and reportage on music and audio for ''The Absolute Sound'' (Sea Cliff, N. Y.) and ''Hi-Fi News and Record Review'' (London), 1980-1990.
* Quarterly "Literary Letter from New York" in ''Vinduet'' (Oslo), 1985-1989.
* Reviews and essays (around four hundred separate items) on computers and software in ''PC Magazine'', ''PC/Computing'', ''Windows Sources'', ''Computer Shopper'', ''PC Sources'', and elsewhere, regularly since 1987. Contributing editor of ''PC Magazine'', since 1988.
* Reviews on contemporary painting in ''Art News'', 1989.
==References==
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* ''Contemporary Authors'' (Gale Research), vol. 65-68
* ''Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series'' (Gale Research), vols. 11, 87
* ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English,'' ed. by Jenny Stringer (1996)
==External links==
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5755318 Interview with Scott Simon, NPR]
* [http://www.bookforum.com/archive/feb_07/jones.html Profile in ''Bookforum,'' February 2007]
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