Works by Mark Jarman
Spring 2026

Wandering Star Charts

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Winter 2026

Poet, Lucky Poet: The Poems of Seamus Heaney

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Autumn 2025

Living in the Moment

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Winter 2025

Where’s Waldo?: Emerson as Emersonian

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Autumn 2024

The Nature of Not Knowing

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Summer 2024

“Poor Eddy”: A New Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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Winter 2024

Life of a Laureate

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Autumn 2023

Artifice and Artistry

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Summer 2023

Of Mere Being: Five Poems by Wallace Stevens

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Spring 2023

1961 at George Sand’s House; The Story

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Winter 2023

Richard Wilbur’s Translations of Molière

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Autumn 2022

“if you want to make it more complicated, I agree”

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Spring 2022

Crossing Again; The Fugitives; Brave Face; For the Adversary

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Autumn 2021

Unstinting Generosity

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Summer 2021

Returning to Roethke

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Autumn 2020

In a Dark Time

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Winter 2020

In Flight from the Fugitives

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Summer 2019

The Lyric in Verse and Prose

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Spring 2019

The Old Historicism and the Practical Critic: Reading Logan Reading

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Autumn 2018

My Father Returns as a Luna Moth; A Happy Childhood; Blackout Good Friday Night; Elegy of Mixed Feelings

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Summer 2018

“Some Sang”

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Spring 2018

Two Citizens: The Life and Work of James Wright

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Autumn 2017

What Was Postmodern Poetry?

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Winter 2017

Whole Earth: Edward O. Wilson’s Proposal to Save the Biosphere

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Autumn 2016

You Are Not Finished: Seamus Heaney’s Translation of the Aeneid Book VI

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Summer 2016

Life and After Life

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Winter 2011

The Elements of Style

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Autumn 2010

The Heronry; Bulgarian Icon of the Last Supper; Outward Bound; Tea Fire

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Summer 2010

Odtaa Furioso

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Winter 2016

The Poet As Prophet: The Life and Letters of Robinson Jeffers

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Autumn 2015

The Judgment of Poetry

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Summer 2015

What Happened to the New Formalism

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Winter 2015

Letter from the Western Isles

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Summer 2014

Writing for God: The Life and Work of George Herbert

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Winter 2014

The Dancing Satyr; Meaning; Crab in a Mussel Shell

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Winter 2014

Lives of a Poet: Denise Levertov

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Summer 2013

A Poet’s Life in Letters

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Spring 2013

From the Gazebo; The Flower Duet

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Winter 2012

More or Less

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Winter 2013

Letter from the Mediterranean

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Spring 2012

William Carlos Williams in Translation

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Summer 2012

Found in Translation

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Winter 2006

Letter from Prague

Summer 2011

A Word to the Wise: New Translations of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

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Winter 2010

Primary Texts and Secondary Sources

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Summer 2009

Citizen Milton

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Winter 2009

Translation for Our Moment

Spring 2008

The Children’s Table; Encounter; Aid to Memory; Castlerigg; Wedding Villanelle

Spring 2008

On Edginess

Spring 2007

Praying and Bird-Watching: The Life of R.S. Thomas

Winter 2007

A Secondary Epic: Robert Fagles’ Aeneid

Autumn 2006

Your Anonymous Correspondent: Ezra Pound and The Hudson Review

Summer 2006

Good Company: Six Voices

Spring 2006

Theory’s Umpires

Summer 2005

When the Light Came On: The Epic Gilgamesh

Spring 2005

Late Excellence

Winter 2005

A Poem of Pure Enjoyment

Autumn 2004

To Kill or Not to Kill: When Heroes Waver

Summer 2004

Ovid, Our Contemporary

Spring 2004

Letter from Sofia

Summer 2003

A Life on the Page

Spring 2003

The Excitement; Enlightenment Ghazal; The Football Dream

Summer 2002

Song of Roland; On Learning of a Child’s Memory; The Heavenly Ladder of John Klimax

Summer 2000

Sister Nobody

Spring 2000

Eliot Among the Women

Winter 2000

Eyewitnesses of Majesty

Autumn 1999

Dark Night of the Brilliant Talker

Summer 1998

Solving for X: The Poetry and Prose of Wallace Stevens

Spring 1998

Cycle; Epistle I; Epistle II

Autumn 1997

A Story of Deep Delight: The Life of Robert Penn Warren

Summer 1997

The Hunter Davenport

Autumn 1996

On Either Side of the Water

Spring 1995

The Primal Storyteller

Winter 1995

Shifting Sands: The Columbia History of American Poetry

Autumn 1994

Nine Unholy Sonnets

Summer 1994

Memory’s Household

Winter 1994

In Via Est Cisterna

Summer 1993

Journals of the Soul

Winter 1993

The Bible as Literature

Summer 1992

The Life of Meaning

Spring 1992

The Curse of Discursiveness

Summer 1991

Iris

Autumn 1990

Letter from Leeds

Summer 1989

Dressing My Daughters; The Double Bow

Winter 1989

An Old Master and Four New Poets

Winter 1988

Monroe Spears and the Judgment of Character

Summer 1987

Poetry Chronicle: Scale of Engagement, from Self to Form Itself

Spring 1987

The Home

Summer 1986

Poetry Chronicle: Singers and Storytellers

Summer 1985

Generations and Contemporaries

Autumn 1984

Storytelling Verse from Oxford

Spring 1984

Ideal Conditons; Poem in June