Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985) was the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. In 1984 he received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the final volume of his trilogy, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age.
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The Seductive Journalist
March 28, 1985
James Boswell: The Later Years, 17691795 by Frank Brady
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Art, Life, and T. S. Eliot
June 28, 1984
T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style by Ronald Bush
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The King of Correspondence
April 26, 1984
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence edited by W.S. Lewis
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Unheard Melodies
April 12, 1984
The Odes of John Keats by Helen Vendler
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Three-Part Inventions
January 19, 1984
The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said
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The Two Robert Brownings
September 29, 1983
Robert Browning: A Life Within Life by Donald Thomas
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In Porter’s “Hacienda”
June 16, 1983
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Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
January 20, 1983
Katherine Anne Porter: A Life by Joan Givner
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The Other Sylvia Plath
February 4, 1982
Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes
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Digging In
October 8, 1981
Poems 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
A Coast of Trees: Poems by A.R. Ammons
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
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All-American Bard
April 2, 1981
Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan
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Otherworldly Goods
January 22, 1981
Scripts for the Pageant by James Merrill
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The Powers of Sympathy
May 29, 1980
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler
Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing
edited by Daniel Hoffman
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Pope’s “Problem”
March 6, 1980
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The Long and the Short of It
February 21, 1980
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices (A New Version) by Robert Penn Warren
Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren
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The Powers of Alexander Pope
December 20, 1979
Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems
by Dustin H. Griffin
Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England by Morris R. Brownell
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Lit in Trouble
June 28, 1979
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff
Celestial Pantomime: Poetic Structures of Transcendence by Justus George Lawler
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Jane Austen’s Politics
April 5, 1979
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Jane Austen and Heroism
February 8, 1979
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The Music of Suffering
December 7, 1978
The Composition of Four Quartets by Helen Gardner
Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions by Donald Hall
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At the Poles of Poetry
August 17, 1978
Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht
Gaudete by Ted Hughes
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Mr. Eliot’s Motives
May 4, 1978
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Eliot’s ‘Headland’
April 6, 1978
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Mr. Eliot’s Martyrdom
February 9, 1978
Eliot’s Early Years by Lyndall Gordon
T.S. Eliot’s Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons by James E. Miller Jr.
T.S. Eliot: The Longer Poems by Derek Traversi
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The Triumph of Dr. Johnson
November 10, 1977
Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate
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The Moral World of Robinson Crusoe
April 28, 1977
The World of Defoe by Peter Earle
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Inside Auden’s Landscape
February 3, 1977
Collected Poems by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
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Lowell’s Irony
November 25, 1976
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Lowell’s Comedy
October 28, 1976
Selected Poems by Robert Lowell
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Aoi!
September 30, 1976
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Swift’s Sting
June 24, 1976
Jonathan Swift by A. L. Rowse
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Love, Hate, and Ezra Pound
May 27, 1976
Ezra Pound by Donald Davie
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Talk about Ashbery
February 19, 1976
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The State of Poetry
January 22, 1976
Collected Poems by George Oppen
Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom: Poems 1952-1971 by Geoffrey Hill
Turtle Island
by Gary Snyder
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The Rescue of Edith Wharton
November 13, 1975
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis
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Boysenberry Sherbet
October 16, 1975
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
by John Ashbery
Departures by Donald Justice
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Teacher
June 12, 1975
The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
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Bloomsbury Variations
April 17, 1975
The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary, and Criticism
edited by S.P. Rosenbaum
The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury by David Gadd
Personal Record, 1920-1972
by Gerald Brenan
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The Life of the Mind
February 20, 1975
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A Misunderstood Genius
February 20, 1975
Samuel Johnson by John Wain
The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers by David Buchanan
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Taking Sides
January 23, 1975
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Dickinsons in Love
January 23, 1975
The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall
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Dickinsons in Love
January 23, 1975
The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall
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Enigma Variations
December 12, 1974
Long Distance by Penelope Mortimer
Tatlin!
by Guy Davenport
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An International Episode
November 14, 1974
Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities by Stephen Spender
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Great Depression
October 31, 1974
Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies by John Leggett
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Buchanan Redux
August 8, 1974
Buchanan Dying: A Play by John Updike