John Burt Department of English MS023 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254 241 Rabb Hall ph: (781) 736-2158 burt at brandeis dot edu Courses: Nineteenth Century American Literature, American Gothic and American Romance, American Realism and Naturalism, Romanticism, Love and Death in the Creative Imagination, Fiction of the Second World War, Slavery in the American Imagination, Race and Reaction: Writing Reconstruction after the Civil War, Slanted Truths and Barbaric Yawps: Poetry in the Age of Whitman and Dickinson, Fiction of William Faulkner, Race, Region and Religion in the Fiction of the Twentieth Century South, Supreme Fictions: Modernism and After in American Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Theories of Justice from Plato to Rawls, Humanities 1 (The Iliad, Greek Tragedy, and the Bible), Introduction to Literary Method, Twentieth Century American Literature, American Fiction since World War II, Pedagogy, American and English Romanticism, American Poetry, Research Interests: American Poetry, American Romanticism, Lincoln, American Political Oratory, American Slavery, English Romanticism, Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Twentieth Century American Fiction, American Realism and Naturalism, Modern Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Fiction of the South, Philosophy and Literature

Literary Executor for Robert Penn Warren

• Victory Turning Point Press, 2007 Buy it!
• Victory at Sea Robert L. Barth, 2001
• Work without Hope Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
• The Way Down Princeton University Press, 1988

• Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict Harvard University Press, 2012 Buy it!
  
• Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Buy it!
  
• The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (A critical edition with variants) Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Awarded Seal of Approval by the Center for Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association. Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for 1998. Buy it!
  
• After the Southern Renascence Cambridge History of American Literature, 1999.
• Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism Yale University Press, 1988.

Selected Syllabi

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Some Poetry in English Since 1945 Supreme Fictions: American Poetry of the Modernist Era and After Race and Reaction: Writing Reconstruction After the Civil War Slavery in the American Imagination Fiction of the Second World War Barbaric Yawps and Slanted Truths: Nineteenth Century American Poetry Love and Death in the Creative Imagination Race, Region, and Religion in the Twentieth Century American South Poetry: A Basic Course Theories of Justice from Plato to Rawls Second-Generation Romantic Poetry

Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep (caricature by Aaron Kagan)

Selected Old Papers

Composition Materials

Sermons and Talks

Computer Software

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License

poemscol.sty: A LaTeX package for typesetting critical editions of poetry.
Features: automatic line numbering, multiple series of endnotes tied to line numbers, automatic table of contents, automatic marking of cases where stanza breaks fall on page breaks, running headers of the form "Textual Notes to pp. xx--yy" in the notes sections, index of titles and first lines.

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