#  Peter Sacks 

John P. Marquand Professor of English Emeritus

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 268 

 smartphone [617-495-2533](tel:617-495-2533) 

 



 

Education: B.A., Princeton University (1973)  
M.Phil., Oxford University (1976)  
Ph.D., Yale University (1980)

Interests: English Language Lyric Poetry; Writing of Poetry; Art and Literature.

Selected Works:  
Necessity (2002); O Wheel (poems, 2000); Natal Command (poems, 1997); Woody Gwyn: an Approach to the Landscape (1995); Promised Lands (poems, 1990); The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (1986); In These Mountains (poems, 1986).



 

 

 





 

 

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