Noah Comet

Last updated

Noah Comet is a professor of English literature at the United States Naval Academy. He specializes in Nineteenth Century (Romantic and Victorian) British Literature. He is known for his book called Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers from Macmillan and several scholarly articles, among them essays in The Wordsworth Circle and the Keats-Shelley Journal on poets Letitia Landon and Felicia Hemans, [1] [2] and articles on John Keats and Lord Byron, including a 2016 essay on Byron's influence on early explorations of Yellowstone. He has also written essays on nature and ecotourism for The New York Times , The Denver Post , and The Baltimore Sun . [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Education

Comet received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2000. Three years later, he received a Master of Arts degree in English from New York University, and he attained a Doctorate of Philosophy in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008.

Scholarship

His most important works of criticism include his articles on Byron, as well as those on Landon and Hemans, which both form part of his book on British women writers and Hellenism. In 2011 he guest-edited a special issue of the journal Women's Studies and in 2014 a special issue of Studies in Romanticism. He is also the editor of Romantic Circles' Electronic Concordance to Keats' Poetry and the author of several book reviews and other articles and short entries in the fields of Romanticism and Victorianism. He is a vocal supporter of the role of the Humanities and Liberal Arts in society and in leadership, and has published essays on the value of Humanities disciplines in the military in particular, including an interview on the subject conducted with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey. [6] He has given numerous conference papers at national and international academic conferences.

Awards

Comet's research has been supported by several fellowships from institutions such as the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the University of California, and he is a teacher. [7]

Publications

Related Research Articles

<i>Ozymandias</i> Sonnet written by Percy Shelley

"Ozymandias" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London. The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826.

Romantic poetry Artistic, literary, musical and intellectual genre and movement

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

M. H. Abrams American literary theorist

Meyer Howard "Mike" Abrams, usually cited as M. H. Abrams, was an American literary critic, known for works on romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams's editorship, The Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S. and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation.

Jonathan Bate British historian, biographer, literary critic, broadcaster, poet, playwright, novelist and scholar

Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate, CBE, FBA, FRSL, is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, poet, playwright, novelist and scholar. He specialises in Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in a joint appointment of the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Sustainability and the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College in the University of Oxford, where he holds the title of Professor of English Literature. From 2017 to 2019 he was Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London. Until September 2019 he was Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He was knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship and higher education. The citation described him as "a true Renaissance man."

Jerome John McGann is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Hellenism (neoclassicism) Art movement

Neoclassical Hellenism is a term introduced primarily during the European Romantic era by Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor is an American academic working as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and gender studies. She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten female Romantic writers into literary history, and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled Romanticism and Feminism.

Paul A. Cantor was an American literary and media critic. He taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he was the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English.

A Defence of Poetry

"A Defence of Poetry" is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by Edward Moxon in London. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

Richard Marggraf Turley is a British literary critic, poet and novelist. He specialises in Romanticism and the poetry of John Keats, surveillance studies and ecocriticism. He is professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University, and between 2013 and 2018 was that institution's Professor of Engagement with the Public Imagination.

Stephen Cheeke is an author and senior lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. He attended Kings of Wessex School with comedian Richard Herring, and then went on to read English at the University of Cambridge, where he formed half of a stand-up double-act, God and Jesus, with Simon Munnery. Since his appointment as lecturer at Bristol in 1994, Cheeke has published articles on Shelley, Byron, and Romanticism. In 2007, he was awarded the Keats-Shelley Association of America's essay prize. Cheeke's publications include Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia, and Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis.

Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley and, previous to Princeton, taught for thirteen years at Rutgers University New Brunswick. Wolfson's recent books include Frankenstein: Longman Cultural Edition (2007). Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in English Romanticism and The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry ; two editions, Lord Byron: Selected Poems, co-edited with Peter Manning, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, coedited with Barry V. Qualls, and scholarship on William Blake, S.T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Lamb, Lord Byron, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, various topics on British Romanticism.

Peter J. Kitson is a British academic and author. He is a Professor of Romantic Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia where he teaches and researches the literature and culture of the British Romantic era.

<i>Epipsychidion</i>

Epipsychidion is a major poetical work published in 1821 by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The work was subtitled: Verses addressed to the noble and unfortunate Lady Emilia V—, now imprisoned in the convent of —. The title is Greek for "concerning or about a little soul", from epi, "around", "about"; and psychidion, "little soul".

Jeffrey N. Cox is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in English Literature and Humanities and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than forty scholarly articles. Cox specializes in English and European Romanticism, cultural theory, and cultural studies. He is a leading scholar of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century drama and theater; of the Cockney School of poets, which included, among others, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Leigh Hunt; and of the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Romantic literature in English Era in English-language literature

Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Scholars regard the publishing of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads in 1798 as probably the beginning of the movement, and the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 as its end. Romanticism arrived in other parts of the English-speaking world later; in the United States, it arrived around 1820.

Pamela Clemit British scholar, critic, and writer

Pamela Clemit, FRHistS is a British scholar, critic, and writer. She specializes in British literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her work intersects with the fields of history, philosophy, and politics, and she has particular expertise in the Godwin-Shelley family of writers.

Diego Saglia is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma. He received his PhD from Cardiff University (UK) and, before joining Parma, taught at Cardiff University and the University of Bath (UK). He is a member of the advisory committee of the “Museo Byron a Palazzo Guiccioli”, the coordinator of the Parma Unit of the Centro Interuniversitario per lo Studio del Romanticismo, and a member of the steering committees of Anglo-Hispanic Horizons, 1780s-1840s and European Romanticisms in Association.

<i>Shelleys Vegetarianism</i> 1891 pamphlet on the diet of Percy Shelley

Shelley's Vegetarianism is a 1891 pamphlet on the vegetarianism of Percy Bysshe Shelley by William Axon, published by the Vegetarian Society. It is a printing of a lecture delivered by Axon before the Shelley Society, at University College in 1890.

References

  1. ↑ Noah Comet at http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/. Retrieved on 11 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Noah Comet, Assistant Professor at http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=3428. Retrieved on 23 May 2010.
  3. ↑ Comet, Noah (January 12, 2018). "Opinion | The Delicate Politics of Chasing Owls". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Comet, Noah. "The value of wilderness". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  5. ↑ Comet, Noah (18 June 2016). "Fear and respect in Yellowstone". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  6. ↑ "Interview: Noah Comet and Derek Handley". Elgar Online (Interview).
  7. ↑ Noah Comet, CV Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/cv.pdf. Retrieved on 23 May 2010.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.