Marjorie Perloff

About The Author

Marjorie Perloff is the author and editor of twenty books, including Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy and 21st-Century Modernism: The New Poetics. She is a Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities emerita at Stanford University.

Books by Marjorie Perloff

Circling the Canon, Volume I

The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969–1994

Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours.
Circling the Canon, Volume II

The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995–2017

Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of Marjorie Perloff's prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 through her 2017 reconsiderations of Jonathan Culler's theory of the lyric and William Empson's classic Seven Types of Ambiguity.
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