Erik Gray
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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Erik Gray

Research Interests

19th Century
Poetry and Poetics
English literature and the Classics
Restoration and 18th Century
Europe
British Romantic Poetry
Comparative Literature
19th Century British Literature and Culture
Victorian Literature
Britain

Biography

B.A., Cambridge (1994); Ph.D., Princeton (2000).?Erik Gray specializes in poetry, particularly of nineteenth-century Britain. His books include?The Art of Love Poetry?(Oxford, 2018),?Milton and the Victorians?(Cornell, 2009), and?The Poetry of Indifference, from the Romantics to the Rubáiyát?(Massachusetts, 2005), as well as editions of Tennyson and Spenser. He has also published articles on a range of poets, including Homer, Virgil, Sidney, Milton, Pope, and Gray, in addition to Romantic and Victorian poets. For many years he has taught Columbia’s introduction to the English major (Literary Texts and Critical Methods), as well as lectures and seminars on nineteenth-century British literature and transhistorical courses on poetry.

Selected Publications

The Art of Love Poetry

Erik Gray

Milton and the Victorians

The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát

Erik Gray

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