Jackson, J.R. de J. 1935- (James Robert de Jager Jackson)

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Jackson, J.R. de J. 1935- (James Robert de Jager Jackson)

PERSONAL:

Born July 14, 1935, in St. Andrews, Scotland; citizenship, Canadian; son of Reginald (a university teacher) and Clara Marion Jackson; married Heather Joanna Murphy (a university teacher), 1969; children: Katherine, Elizabeth. Education: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, B.A., 1957, M.A., 1958; Princeton University, A.M., 1960, Ph.D., 1961; University of London, Ph.D., 1963.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Office—Department of English, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K1, Canada.

CAREER:

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assistant professor, 1963-64; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, began as assistant professor, 1964, became university professor, 1994-2001; retired, 2001.

MEMBER:

Royal Society of Canada (fellow).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Guggenheim fellow, 1972-73; Killam research fellow, 1975-76 and 1982-84; Connaught senior fellow, 1985-86.

WRITINGS:

Method and Imagination in Coleridge's Criticism, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1969.

(Editor) Coleridge: The Critical Heritage, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1970, Volume 2: 1834-1900, Routledge (London, England) 1991.

Poetry of the Romantic Period, Routledge (London, England), 1980.

(Editor) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Logic, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1981.

Annals of English Verse, 1770-1835, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1985.

Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts, Routledge (London, England), 1989.

Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography 1770-1835, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1993.

(Editor, with H.J. Jackson) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shorter Works and Fragments, two volumes, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1995.

(Editor) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures, 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy, two volumes, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2000.

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