David Pollard (author)

David Pollard (b. 2 July 1942, London) is a British author.

Biography

Pollard was born under a bed during the blitz in 1942 and brought up a Londoner. After working in the furniture trade and serving his articles in accountancy, he escaped to the University of Sussex where he was given his three degrees in English Literature, the History of Ideas and Philosophy. The last of these, a doctorate, was awarded on his fortieth birthday and was published as ‘The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience’ and is a Heideggerian approach to the poet. He has worked at the Universities of Essex and Sussex and spent a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Lady Davis Scholar. He has also published the standard concordance to Keats’ Letters based on the Rider K Rollins edition published by Harvard University Press. He has also published on Blake and Nietzsche, his latest being ‘Nietzsche’s Footfalls’, a meditation on the philosopher and his times, his relation to his sister and Nazism and especially to Wagner. He is currently working on a historical novel based at the end of the first century and a text on Shakespeare which he considers a lifelong task.

Pollard’s poetry has been published in the following journals: Tears in the Fence, [1] “Fire, [2], Eclipse, Poetry Monthly, [3]” “Journal of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association”, "[4]” “Artcritical”, [5]” “Journal of the Blake Society", “[6]” Pollard's criticism has appeared in "The British Journal of Aesthetics", "[7]" "Philosophy and Literature", "[8]" "bamah drama quarterly" "Bulletin of the Hegel Society", "[9]"

Publications

• The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience - (Harvester Press and Barnes & Noble), 1984
• A KWIC Concordance to the Harvard Edition of the Letters of John Keats - (Geraldson Imprints), 1993
• Nietzsche’s Footfalls – (Geraldson Imprints), 2001
• patricides - Waterloo Press, 2006
• Risk of Skin - Waterloo Press, 2011
• Waterloo Sampler No 4” - Waterloo Press, 2004
• bedbound- Perdika Press, 2011
• "Self-annihilation and Self-overcoming: Blake and Nietzsche," in David Farrell Krell and David Wood, Exceedingly Nietzsche (Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature, Routledge, 1998).
• "William Blake and the Book of Job," in Meira Perry-Lehmann, There Was a Man in the Land of Uz: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1992).

External links

• David Pollard website
• Waterloo Press website
• PerdikaPress website

References

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Name	Pollard David
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Date of birth	2 July 1942
Place of birth	London
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