Earl Miner, 1927-2004.(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, June, 2004 by Markley, Robert

Earl Miner of Princeton University, a longtime member of the Editorial Board of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, died on April 17, 2004, after a long illness. He was seventy-seven. A specialist in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature as well as classical Japanese literature, Earl had a distinguished career at UCLA and Princeton, and wrote or edited numerous books, among them Dryden's Poetry (1967), An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry (1968), The Metaphysical Mode from Donne to Cowley (1969), Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature (1990), and Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Basho and Sora, Johnson and Boswell (1996).

He joined the Board in the late 1970s and was a...

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