Jahan Ramazani

Biography

Jahan Ramazani is the author of The Hybrid Muse (Chicago, 2001); Poetry of Mourning (Chicago, 1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Yeats and the Poetry of Death (Yale, 1990). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, and the William Riley Parker Prize.

See Work

ESSAYS / Spring 2004

Writing Life: Remaking a Norton Anthology

By Jahan Ramazani

What redeems literary anthologists, if we’re able to claim neither the creativity of the poet nor the analytic rigor of the cultural theorist? Having dedicated myself for years to constructing elaborate critical arguments, how did I get...

Winter 1992

The Great War and the Modern Imagination

By Jahan Ramazani