Ramazani, Jahan

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RAMAZANI, Jahan

RAMAZANI, Jahan. American, b. 1960. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: University of Virginia, assistant professor of English, 1988-94, professor of English, 1994-. Publications: Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime, 1990; Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney, 1994; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English, 2001; (ed. with R. Ellmann and R. O'Clair) The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed., 2003. Address: Department of English, University of Virginia, PO Box 400121, Charlottesville, VA 22904, U.S.A.