Gordon Teskey
Education: B.A., Trent University (1976)
M.A., University of Toronto (1977)
Ph.D., University of Toronto (1981)
Interests: Renaissance English Poetry, especially Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, and the “Metaphysicals”; History and Theory of Allegory; Philosophy and Its Relation to Poetry.
Selected Works: “Allegory as Language Game: Spenser with Wittgenstein” (Spenser Studies 37, 2023); “The River Overflows: Consciousness in 'Upon Appleton House'” (“Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400,” Proceedings of the British Academy, 2022); “Bent Abstraction” (ELH 88:2, 2021); Spenserian Moments (Harvard University Press, 2019); The Poetry of John Milton (Harvard University Press, 2015, winner of Christian Gauss Prize); Delirious Milton (Harvard University Press, 2006); Allegory and Violence (Cornell University Press, 1996); Editor of The Norton Edition of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” (1st edition in 2005, 2nd edition in 2021).