Dennis Taylor

Professor Emeritus

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Dennis Taylor

Ph.D.

Contact

Email: dennis.taylor@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., College of the Holy Cross
  • Ph.D., Yale University

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • 听(Lanham MD: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
  • , revised reprinted edition (Oxford, Clarendon, 1998; paperback 2001; orig. 1993).
  • (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988).听
  • , Revised edition, hardbound and paperback (London, Macmillan, 1989; orig,. 1981).听
  • Editor, , Penguin edition, Reissued 2003, with introduction, "The Letter of What Law in Jude the Obscure", and appendix, "The Chronology of Jude the Obscure". Orig. 1998.听
Collections
  • Editor, , co-edited with David Beauregard, 2003, Fordham University Press. Introduction by Dennis Taylor.
  • Editor, Shakespeare and the Reformation, special issue Religion and the Arts 7.1/2 (2003). With Introduction by Dennis Taylor.

Web Page

Academic Articles

  • 鈥淭he Old Faith, 鈥楾he Old Sod,鈥� and the New Critical Openness鈥� (review essay, on Jarlath Killeen鈥檚 The Faiths of Oscar Wilde),听Religion and the Arts听14 (2010): 459-66.
  • 鈥淒eeanne Westbrook鈥檚 Wordsworth鈥檚 Biblical Ghosts,鈥澨�Religion and the Arts听14 (2010): 489-93.
  • 鈥淭ennyson鈥檚 Catholic Years:听 A Point of Contact,鈥澨�Victorian Poetry听47 (Spring 2009), Special Issue,听Tennyson at Two Hundred, ed. Herbert Tucker. 285-312.
  • 鈥�Jude the Obscure听and English National Identity:听 The Religious Striations of Wessex鈥�, in听A Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed. Keith Wilson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) 345-63.
  • 鈥淔rom Stratford to Casterbridge:听 Hardy鈥檚 Early Reading of Shakespeare,鈥� in听Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed. Rosemarie Morgan, forthcoming 2009.
  • 鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Copy of Shakespeare鈥檚听Othello,鈥澨�Thomas Hardy Journal听(Autumn 2006):听33-47.鈥� Hardy and听Hamlet.鈥� In听Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate, ed. Keith Wilson.听 Toronto, Canada:听 University of Toronto Press, 2006.听38-54.
  • 鈥淏earish on the Will:听John Shakespeare in the Rafters,鈥澨�Shakespeare Newsletter听54.1 (Spring 2004):听11, 16, 24, 28.
  • 鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Copy of Hamlet,鈥� Thomas Hardy Journal 20 (October 2004):听87-112.
  • 鈥淭homas Hardy and Thomas Gray:听 The Poet's Currency鈥� (1998), reprinted in听Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism听143 (2004).听 Gale Literary Criticism Series, ed. Janet Witalec et al.听 Farmington Hills, MI.
  • 鈥淪orting out Catholic and Protestant Elements in Shakespeare鈥� (Review Essay of books by Targoff, Freinkel, Knapp, and Shuger).听Religion and the Arts听7.1/2 (2003): 177-92.
  • Editor,听Jude the Obscure, Penguin edition, Reissued 2003, with introduction, "The Letter of What Law in听Jude the Obscure", and appendix, "The Chronology of听Jude the Obscure".听 Orig. 1998.
  • "More on Milward and Harner,"听Shakespeare Newsletter听52.2 (Summer 2002) 30.
  • "Milward on Shakespeare After Fifty Years,"听Shakespeare Newsletter听52.1 (2002):
    15-16.
  • "Hardy and Wordsworth," rept. in听A Historical Evaluation of Thomas Hardy's Poetry, ed. A. Bannerjee. Lewiston:听Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
  • "Wordsworth's Abbey Ruins."听听In The Fountain Light:听 Studies in Romanticism and Religion, ed. J. Robert Barth, S.J.听(NY:听Fordham University Press, 2002). 37-53.
  • "The Chronology of Hardy's Poetry, Part 3"听Thomas Hardy Journal, 18.1 (2002):听33-51.
  • "The Chronology of Hardy's Poetry, Part 2"听Thomas Hardy Journal, 17.3 (2001):听46-63.
  • "The Chronology of Hardy's Poetry, Part 1"听Thomas Hardy Journal, 17.2 (2001):听43-57.
  • 鈥淗amlet in Purgatory,", review essay on听Hamlet in Purgatory, by Stephen Greenblatt,听Religion and the Arts听5.3 (2001):听331-37.
  • "The Perils of Embodiment:听 Geoffrey Hartman on Culture, Poetry, and the Holocaust,"听Religion and the Arts听3.3/4 (1999):听439-53.
  • "Hardy's Copy of听The Golden Treasury", Victorian Poetry 37 (1999):听165-91.
  • "The Chronology of Hardy's Poetry,"听Victorian Poetry, 37 (1999):听1-58.
  • "Hardy as a Nineteenth-Century Poet", in听The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed. Dale Kramer (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 183-203.
  • "Hardy's Metrics", in听Oxford Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed Norman Page (Oxford University Press, 2000), 270-73.
  • "Hardy's Poetry", in听Oxford Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed Norman Page (Oxford University Press, 2000), 326-32.
  • "The Need for a Religious Literary Criticism",听in Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience, ed. John L. Mahoney (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998).
  • "The Editions of Hardy's Poetry",听Thomas Hardy Society of North America Web Page, Yale University, August 1998.
  • "Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray:听 The Poet's Currency",听ELH听65 (1998):听451-77.
  • "The Letter of What Law in听Jude the Obscure", introduction to Jude the Obscure (Penguin ed. 1998).
  • "Hardy's Use of Tennyson's听In Memoriam",听Tennyson Research Bulletin, 7 (1997):听32-41.
  • "Editor's Introduction: Originality and Religious Criticism at the Present Time",听Religion and the Arts听2 (1997), v-vi.
  • "Editor's Introduction:听 Dangerous Transitional Objects",听Religion and the Arts听1 (1996), vii-ix.
  • "The Chronology of听Jude the Obscure",听Thomas Hardy Journal听12 (October 1996) 65-68.
  • "Hardy's Copy of Tennyson's听In Memoriam",听Thomas Hardy Journal听13 (February 1997), 43-63.
  • "The Need for a Religious Literary Criticism",听Religion and the Arts听1 (1996), 124-150.
  • "Hardy's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", lecture summarized by Joanna Cullen Brown,听Thomas Hardy Journal, December 1994.
  • "Literary Texts and the State of the Language:听The Role of the Computer",听Computers and the Humanities, 27 (1993), 341-47.
  • "Hardy and Drayton:听 A Contribution to Pastoral and Georgic Traditions", in听The Literature of Place, ed. Norman Page and Peter Preston (London, Macmillan, 1993).
  • "Strang's Strange Portrait of Hardy, and other Strang Matters," cover article,听Thomas Hardy Journal听(February 1993), 90-1.
  • "The Apparitional Meters of Wallace Stevens", The听Wallace Stevens Journal, 15 (Fall, 1991), 209-228. ('Dennis Taylor makes a very interesting and fruitful suggestion . . .', Eleanor Cook, 'Introduction',听The Wallace Stevens Journal, 15 (Fall 1991), 123.
  • 鈥淭he Writer, the Lexicographer, and Lexical Change鈥�,听Dictionaries, 12 (1990), 1-14. 鈥淚 am very enthusiastic about the ideas contained in the paragraph at the bottom of page [15]鈥�, reader鈥檚 report, Richard Bailey.
  • 鈥淗ardy, Professor Goto, and the听Oxford English Dictionary鈥�, reprinted in听A Memorial Volume for Yoshinoshin Goto In Honour of His 88th Birthday听(Japan, 1990), 301-4.
  • 鈥淐orrespondence with Professor Goto鈥�, in听A Memorial Volume for Yoshinoshin Goto In Honour of His 88th Birthday听(Japan, 1990), 294-301, 308-10.
  • 'Foreward' to Marina Tarlinskaja's听Strict Stress-Meter in English Poetry听(Univ. of Calgary Press, 1993).
  • 'Literary Writers and the听Oxford English Dictionary: a Tribute to Professor Yoshinoshin Goto', in听A Memorial Volume for Yoshinoshin Goto In Honour of His 88th Birthday听(Japan, 1990).
  • 鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Milton Once More鈥� (with Dayton Haskin),听Thomas Hardy Journal, 6 (October 1990), 71-2.
  • "The Body of Victorian Language and the Hunting of the听OED",听Annals of Scholarship, 7 (1990), 155-64.
  • "Hardy's Missing Poem and His Copy of Milton",听Thomas Hardy Journal, 6听(February 1990), 50-60.听Cited in Tim Armstrong, ed.听Thomas Hardy:听Selected Poems听(London, Longman, 1993), 52.
  • 鈥淭he Patterns in Hardy's Poetry鈥�, in听Modern Critical Views: Thomas Hardy, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1988).
  • 鈥淭he Second Hardy鈥�,听Sewanee Review听96 (Spring 1988): 250-58.
  • 鈥淗ardy, Professor Goto, and the听Oxford English Dictionary鈥�,听Thomas Hardy Journal, 4 (May 1988): 37-42.听
  • 鈥淗ardy and Wordsworth",听Thomas Hardy Journal, 4 (January 1988), 54-68.
  • "Hardy and Wordsworth",听Victorian Poetry, 24 (Winter 1986), 441-454.
  • "Joyce's Dublin",听PMLA, 101 (1986), 862-3.
  • "A Classroom Model for Develop mental Psychology"听Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Improving University Teaching听(London, 1979).
  • "Hopkins and the Origin of Language," Inscape:听Studies Presented to Charles Donovan, S.J.听(艾可直播 College, 1977).
  • "Victorian Poetry and Victorian Philology,"听Victorian Newsletter,听No. 53 (Spring 1978), 13-16.
  • "The Patterns in Hardy's Poetry,"听English Literary History, 42 (Summer 1975), 258-75.
  • "The Confidence Man:听 From the听Pardoner's Tale听 to The Fall",听Arizona Quarterly, 31听(Spring 1975), 73-85.
  • "Hardy's Poetic Development:听The Case of 'During Wind and Rain',"听Colby Library Quarterly, 11 (March 1975), 68-74.
  • "Natural Supernaturalism's New Clothes,"听Wordsworth Circle, 5 (Winter 1974), 33-40.
  • "The Syntax of 鈥楴eutral Tones,"听Victorian Poetry, 12 (Autumn 1974) 285-90. Co-author Paul Doherty.听
  • "Some Strategies of Religious Autobiography,"听Renascence, 27 (Autumn, 1974), 40-44.听 Cited in Diane Sasson,听The Shaker Spiritual Narrative听(Knoxville, University of TN, 1983).
  • "The Riddle of Hardy's Poetry,"听Victorian Poetry, 11 (Winter 1973), 263-76.

Reviews

  • 鈥�Texts and Traditions, by Beatrice Grove; and Shakespeare鈥檚 Christianity, ed. by Beatrice Batson.鈥澨�Comparative Drama听41 (2007):听396-400.
  • 鈥�The Honeymoon is Over:听Jonah鈥檚 Argument with God鈥� by T. A. Perry,听Religion and the Arts听11.2 (2007):听135.
  • 鈥�Wordsworth:听An Inner Life鈥� by Duncan Wu.听Religion and the Arts听10.4. (2006):听561-63.
  • 鈥�Religion, Toleration, and British Writing 1790-1830鈥� by Mark Canuel.听Religion and the Arts听10.4 (2006):听556-59.
  • 鈥�Shakespeare鈥檚 Tragic Skepticism鈥� by Bell, Millicent.听Religion and the Arts听10.3. (2006).
  • 鈥淗amlet in Purgatory,", review essay on听Hamlet in Purgatory, by Stephen Greenblatt,听Religion and the Arts听5.3 (2001):听331-37.
  • 鈥�Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry, by Matthew Campbell",听听Victorian Studies听43 (Winter 2001):听357-8.
  • "Reading Alcoholisms:听Theorizing Character and Narrative in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf听by Jane Lilienfeld,"听Thomas Hardy Journal听16 (May 2000) 76-78.
  • "Robert Browning's Language听by Donald S. Hair",听Victorian Studies听43 (2001): 465-7.
  • "Divine Inspiration:听The Life of Jesus in World Poetry, ed. Robert Atwan, George Dardess, Peggy Rosenthal,"听Bible Review听(2000).
  • Shakespeare:听 the 'Lost Years', by E. A. J. Honigmann, review,听Religion and the Arts听4 (2000): 579-82.
  • Shakespeare's Romances and the Politics of Counter-Reformation听by Thomas Rist, review,听Religion and the Arts听4 (2000): 218-20.
  • Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts听ed. Arthur Marotti, review,听Religion and the Arts听4 (2000): 208-210.
  • Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance听by Velma Richmond, review,听Religion and the Arts听4 (2000): 215-18.
  • "Anne Gardiner's听Ancient Faith and Modern Freedom in John Dryden's听The Hind and the Panther,"听Religion and the Arts听2 (1998), 263-4.
  • 'Irene Collins's听Jane Austen and the Clergy',听Religion and the Arts听2 (1997), 145.
  • 'Andrew Greeley听Religion as Poetry',听Religion and the Arts听2 (1997), 145-6.
  • 'Donald Davie's听Essays in Dissent; Church, Chapel, and the Unitarian Conspiracy,' Religion and the Arts听1 (1996), 151.
  • 'Kieran Quinlan's听Walker Percy,' Religion and the Arts 1 (1996), 152.
  • 'E. P. Thompson's听Witness Against the Beast:听 William Blake and the Moral Law,' Religion and the Arts 1 (1997), 152-3.
  • 'James Gibson's听Thomas Hardy:听A Literary Life",听Thomas Hardy Journal听12 (October 1996) 107-109.
  • 'Forms of Speech in Victorian Fiction听by Raymond Chapman', review essay,听Victorian Studies听39 (1996) 412-15.
  • 'Thomas Hardy's Tragic Poetry听. . . by Katherine Kearney Maynard',听Thomas Hardy Journal, 9 (May 1993), 73-76.
  • 'Henry Weinfield,听The Poet Without a Name:听 Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History',听Journal of English and Germanic Philology听93 (1994), 439-43.
  • 'John Lennard,听But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse' Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 93 (1994), 458-61.
  • 'A Journey into Thomas Hardy's Poetry听by Joanna Brown,听Hardy's Topographical Lexiconby Margaret Faurot', review article,听Thomas Hardy Journal, 7 (October 1991), 121-4.
  • "Eric Griffiths,听The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry",听Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 91 (1992), 263-7.
  • "W.J.B. Owen, ed.听 Wordsworth's Literary Criticism,"听Wordsworth Circle, 6 (Summer 1976), 193-4.
  • "Hateful Contraries, by William Wimsatt,"听Review of Metaphysics, 20 (1967), 536.
  • "Ishmael's White Whale, by Paul Brodtkorb,"听Review of Metaphysics, 20 (1967), 554.

OTHER

  • 鈥淯nplanned: Life with George,鈥�听艾可直播 College Magazine听(Spring, 2016).
  • 鈥�,鈥�听艾可直播 College Magazine听(Summer, 2009).
  • ",听艾可直播 College Magazine听61.4 (Fall听 2001):听 32-
  • ",听艾可直播 College Magazine听(Spring, 1996), 10.
  • "听cover article,听艾可直播 College Magazine听(Winter, 1993), 32-40.
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