- Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at
Columbia University .cite web
url = http://www.bookforum.com/archive/feb_07/jones.html
title=The Geography of His House] He is theliterary executor of the Estate ofW. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work, including "Early Auden" (1981) and "Later Auden" (1999). [cite book
last = Davenport-Hines
first = Richard
title = Auden
authorlink = Richard Davenport-Hines
publisher = Heinemann
location = London
year = 1995
isbn = 0-434-17507-2] He is also the author of a book about nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels, "The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life" (2006). [cite book
last = Mendelson
first = Edward
title = The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
authorlink =
publisher = Pantheon
location = New York
year = 2006
isbn = 0375424083]He has edited standard editions of works by W. H. Auden, including "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 introduced the critical category of "encyclopedic narrative, further elaborated in a later essay, "Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon" ("MLN," vol. 91, 1976). [cite web
url = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v009/9.3rasula.html
author = Jed Rasula
title=Textual Indigence in the Archive]He is the editor of annotated editions of novels by
Thomas Hardy ,George Meredith ,Arnold Bennett ,H. G. Wells , andAnthony 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 . [cite web
url = http://www.rslit.org/fellows.htm
title=Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature]Before teaching at Columbia, he was an associate professor of English at
Yale University and a visiting associate professor of English atHarvard University .Since 1986 he has written about computing, software, and typography and is a contributing editor of "
PC Magazine ."Publications
Books
* (as editor) W. H. Auden. "Collected Poems". Faber & Faber, 1976; Random House, 1976. Revised edition: Vintage Books, 1991; Faber & Faber, 1991; further revised edition: Modern Library, 2007; Faber & Faber 2007.
* (as co-editor) "Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions". Yale University Press, 1977. In collaboration with Michael Seidel.
* (as editor) "". Prentice‐Hall, 1978.
* (as editor) W. H. Auden. "The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings", 1927-1939. Faber & Faber, 1977; Random House, 1978.
* (as editor) W. H. Auden. "Selected Poems: New Edition". Vintage Books, 1978; Faber & Faber, 1978; expanded edition: Vintage Books, 2007.
* "Early Auden". Viking, 1981; Faber & Faber, 1981; revised paperback edition: Harvard University Press, 1983; Faber & Faber, 1999; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
* (as editor) "The Complete Works of W. H. Auden" (five vols). Princeton University Press, 1986- ; Faber & Faber, 1986- .
* "Later Auden". Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999; Faber & Faber, 1999; revised paperback edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
* "The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have To Say About the Stages of Life". Pantheon, 2006; with new afterword, Anchor Books, 2007.elected essays
* "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. Duke University Press, 1975; revised version in "Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays" (see above),
* "Gravity's Encyclopedia". "Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon", ed. George Levine and David Leverenz. Little, Brown, 1976.
* "Encyclopedic Narrative, from Dante to Pynchon". "MLN", 91 (December 1976).
* "The Word & the Web". "New York Times Book Review", 2 June 1996.
* [http://www.lctreview.org/article.cfm?id_article=31521284&page=1&id_issue=10018106 "Clarissa Dalloway Remembers Cymbeline".] "Lincoln Center Theater Review", Fall 2007.
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20875 "Auden and God".] "New York Review of Books", 6 December 2007.
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21497 "New York Everyman".] "New York Review of Books", 12 June 2008.Popular Culture
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.References
* "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]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/4454 Mendelson author page and archive] from "The New York Review of Books "
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