Waldoff, Leon 1935-
WALDOFF, Leon 1935-
PERSONAL:
Male. Born February 16, 1935, in Hattiesburg, MS; son of Paul (a merchant) and Eva (Stein) Waldoff; married Alice Kapner, November 6, 1960; children: Jessica P. Education: Northwestern University, B.A., 1957; University of Michigan, M.A., 1963, Ph.D., 1967. Religion: Jewish.
ADDRESSES:
Home—611 West Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana, IL 61801. Office—c/o Department of English, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, 608 South Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, professor of English, 1967-90, professor emeritus, 1990—.
MEMBER:
Modern Language Association of America, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, Keats-Shelley Association of America.
WRITINGS:
Keats and the Silent Work of Imagination, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1985.
Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics: The Art and Psychology of Self-Representation, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 2001.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Choice, December, 2001, G. A. Cevasco, review of Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics: The Art and Psychology of Self-Representation.
Review of English Studies, February, 1987, Dinah Birch, review of Keats and the Silent Work of Imagination, p. 95.
Times Literary Supplement, April 5, 2002, John Haydn Baker, review of Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics, p. 32.
Virginia Quarterly Review, winter, 2002, review of Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics.