Jared Curtis

Jared Curtis, Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University, is the editor of "Poems, in Two Volumes" and Other Poems, 1800-1807, Last Poems, 1821-1850, and co-editor with Carol Landon of Early Poems and Fragments, 1785““1797, all in the Cornell Wordsworth. He is the editor of William Wordsworth's Fenwick Notes and The Poems of William Wordsworth: The Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth (in 3 vols.), all published by Humanities Ebooks. He is also the Coordinating Editor of the Cornell series of editions of Yeats' manuscripts and is the editor of two plays, The Land of Heart's Desire and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, and a co-editor with Richard J. Finneran and Ann Saddlemyer of The Tower (1928), all in the Cornell Yeats.

Relevant Publications

Books

• Wordsworth’s Experiments with Tradition: The Lyric Poetry of 1802, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. “Poems, in Two Volumes,” and Other Poems, 1800–1807, by William Wordsworth, ed. Jared Curtis. The Cornell Wordsworth Series, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

• The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth, ed. Jared Curtis. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, an imprint of Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1993. Revised edition, Humanities–Ebooks, Penrith, UK, 2007.

• Early Poems and Fragments, 1785–1797, by William Wordsworth, Cornell Wordsworth Series. Ed. Dr. CarolLandon and Jared Curtis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

• Last Poems, 1821–1850, by William Wordsworth, Cornell Wordsworth Series. Ed. Jared Curtis, with Associate Editors Apryl Lea Denny–Ferris and Jillian Heydt–Stevenson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

• The Land of Heart’s Desire: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Jared Curtis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001

• The Tower (1928): Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Richard J. Finneran, with assistance from Jared Curtis and Ann Saddlemyer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

• Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Jared Curtis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

• The Cornell Wordsworth: A Supplement. Penrith, UK: Humanities–Ebooks, 2008.

• The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Jared Curtis and Selina Guinness. Cornell University Press, 2011.

• On Baile’s Strand: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Jared Curtis and Declan Kiely. Forthcoming, Cornell University Press, 2013.

Selected Articles

• “William Wordsworth and English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” The Cornell Library Journal, 1 (1966): 28–39.

• “‘Thou Best Philosopher’: Some New Variants for Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode,’“ Yale University Library Gazette, 44 (1970): 139–147.

• “A Note on the Lost Manuscripts of William Wordsworth’s ‘Louisa’ and ‘I travell’d among unknown Men,’“ Yale University Library Gazette, 53 (1979): 196–201.

• “The Wellesley Copy of Wordsworth’s Poetical Works, 1832,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 28 (1980): 5–15.

• “Charles A. Elton and Wordsworth’s ‘New Poem’: A Study in Taste,” The Wordsworth Circle, 11 (1980): 36–42.

• “Wordsworth and ‘The Banished Negroes’,” The Wordsworth Circle, 18 (1987): 144–145.

• “Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lines, left upon a Seat in a Yew–tree,” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 87 (1986–1987): 482–488.

• “The Making of a Reputation: John Carter’s Corrections to the Proofs of Wordsworth’s Poetical Works (1857),” Texte, 7 (1988): 61–80.

• “Matthew Arnold’s Wordsworth: The Tinker Tinkered,” in The Mind in Creation: Essays on English Romantic Literature in Honor of Ross G. Woodman, ed. J. Douglas Kneale, Ottawa: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 1992, pp. 44–57, 148–153.

• “Poem Hid in a Tin Box: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Inscription for a seat by the pathway side ascending to Windy Brow,” in Wordsworth in Context, ed. Pauline Fletcher and John Murphy, Bucknell Review, 35 (1992): 156–172.

• “William Wordsworth, Francis Wrangham, and the Imitation of Juvenal’s Eighth Satire.” in The Wordsworth Circle, 28 (1997): 103–105.

Other activities

Supervised Cornell Wordsworth Editions:

• The Shorter Poems, 1807–1820, by William Wordsworth. Ed. Carl H. Ketcham. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

• “Lyrical Ballads,” and Other Poems, 1797–1800, by William Wordsworth. Ed. James A. Butler and Karen Green, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

• Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820–1842, by William Wordsworth. Ed. Geoffrey. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

• The Excursion (1814), by William Wordsworth, ed. Sally Bushell, James A. Butler, Michael C. Jaye, with the assistance of David Garcia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Supervised Cornell Yeats Editions:

• New Poems: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. J. C. C. Mays and Stephen Parrish. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

• Words Upon the Window Pane: Manuscript Materials, by W. B. Yeats, ed. Mary FitzGerald. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

• “In the Seven Woods” and “The Green Helmet and Other Poems”: Manuscript Materials, by W. B. Yeats, Ed. David Holdeman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

• “Responsibilities”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. William O’Donnell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

• “Parnell’s Funeral” and Other Poems from “A Full Moon in March”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. David R. Clark. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

• “The Dreaming of the Bones” and “Calvary”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. by Wayne Chapman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

• “Deirdre”: Manuscript Material, by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Virginia Rohan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

• “The Only Jealousy of Emer” and “Fighting the Waves”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Steven Winnett. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

• Diarmuid and Grania: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats and George Moore. Ed. J. C. C. Mays. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005

• “The King’s Threshold”: Manuscript Materials, by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Declan Kiely. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

• Collaborative One–Act Plays, 1901–1903 (“Cathleen ni Houlihan,” “The Pot of Broth,” “The Country of the Young,” “Heads or Harps”): Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. James Pethica. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

• “The King of the Great Clock Tower” and “A Full Moon in March”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Richard Allen Cave. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

• “The Golden Helmet” and “The Green Helmet”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. William P. Hogan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.

• “At the Hawk’s Well” and “The Cat and the Moon”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ed. Andrew Parkin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

• “Where There Is Nothing” and “The Unicorn from the Stars”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. Ed. Wim Van Mierlo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.