Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry

Biographical notes

Albert Cook (Author)

The Author: Albert Cook (1925-1998) was Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus and Professor of Comparative Literature, English and Classics at Brown University. He was the author of more than twenty books of criticism, including The Classic Line, Prisms, Myth and Language, and The Reach of Poetry. He published more than twelve volumes of poetry and was highly regarded as a translator for his versions of Oedipus Rex and The Odyssey. Professor Cook taught at Berkeley, Western Reserve, and the University of Buffalo, as well as Brown, profoundly influencing several generations of literary scholars. The Editor: Peter Baker is Professor of English at Towson University in Maryland, where he teaches modern literature and literary theory.