Hazard Adams
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Hazard Adams (February 15, 1926 - February 24, 2023) was a literary critic, educator, and Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. A leading scholar on the poetry and art of William Blake, Adams is also known for his work in literary aesthetics and literary theory, editing the college-level textbooks Critical Theory Since Plato (co-edited with Leroy Searle) and Critical Theory Since 1965 (also co-edited with Searle).
Adams was professor at the University of California, Irvine from 1964 to 1977.[1] There he helped establish the MA and PhD programs in Comparative Literature, developed the MFA in Creative Writing, and was the co-founder with Murray Krieger of the School of Criticism and Theory.[1] Adams joined the English and Comparative Literature faculties of the University of Washington in 1977, becoming Byron W. Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities in 1988, and Professor Emeritus in 1995.[2]
A specialist in the poetry and literature of Romanticism, Adams' scholarly writings examined the philosophical, religious, and symbolic aspects of William Blake, William Butler Yeats, and other poets, first illustrated in his 1955 study Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision.[3][4] Adams' 1983 study Philosophy and the Literary Symbolic drew on philosophers such as Giambattista Vico, Immanuel Kant, and Ernst Cassirer, to develop a theory of the poetic symbol.[5][6] These ideas were later expanded in The Offense of Poetry (2007).[7][8]
As a literary scholar Adams wrote on poets such as Blake, Yeats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, and Seamus Heaney, as well as authors such as James Joyce and Joyce Cary.[9][10] Adams also published novels, poetry, essay collections, edited anthologies, and a memoir.
Works[edit]
- Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision (1955)
- The Contexts of Poetry (1963)
- William Blake: A Reading of the Shorter Poems (1963)
- Editor, Poetry: An Introductory Anthology (1968)
- The Horses of Instruction (novel) (1968)
- The Interests of Criticism: An Introduction to Literary Theory (1969)
- Editor, William Blake, Jerusalem: Selected Poems and Prose (1970)
- The Truth About Dragons, an Anti-Romance (novel) (1971)
- Editor, with Leroy Searle, Critical Theory Since Plato (1971)
- The Academic Tribes (1976)
- Joyce Cary's Trilogies (1983)
- Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic (1983)
- Editor, with Leroy Searle, Critical Theory Since 1965 (1986)
- Editor, Antithetical Essays in Literary Criticism (1990)
- Editor, Critical Essays on William Blake (1991)
- The Book of Yeats' Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition (1995)
- The Farm at Richwood and Other Poems (1997)
- Home (novel) (2001)
- Academic Child: A Memoir (2009)
- Thinking Through Blake: Essays in Literary Contrariety (2014)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In Memoriam: Remembering Hazard Adams, University of California, Irvine News
- ↑ In Memoriam: Hazard Adams, University of Washington News
- ↑ Thomas Parkinson, "Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision," Modern Philology 54.4 (1957): 281-84.
- ↑ Kenneth Hanson, "Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 15.3 (1957): 372.
- ↑ Shyamal Bagchee, "Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic, Hazard Adams," Modern Philology 84.2 (Nov. 1986), 239-41.
- ↑ Denis Donoghue, "Hazard Adams, Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic," Times Literary Supplement 6 (1984): 370.
- ↑ Benjamin Lee, "The Offense of Poetry," Modern Philology 109.1 (August 2011), E1-E4.
- ↑ Zachary Gartenberg, "The Offense of Poetry" MLN (Modern Language Notes) 24.5 (2009): 1211-15.
- ↑ Lee, "Hazard Adams, The Offense of Poetry".
- ↑ T.R. Henn, "Hazard Adams, William Blake: A Reading of the Shorter Poems," Modern Language Review 60.1 (1965): 97-99.
External links[edit]
- Hazard Adams archives, University of Washington
- Interview with Hazard Adams (1974), UC Irvine Archives
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