The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry

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Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books: Poetry and its Others: News Prayer Song and the Dialogue of Genres (2013); A Transnational Poetics (2009) winner of the 2011 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association awarded for the best book in comparative literary history published in the years 2008 to 2010; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001); Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994) a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy Self-Elegy and the Sublime (1990). He is a co-editor of the most recent editions of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006 2012) and an associate editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship an National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship a Rhodes Scholarship the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association and the Thomas Jefferson Award the University of Virginia's highest honor. In 2016 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.