John D. Rosenberg is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English at Columbia University of New York. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. Among many works and editions, he has written 'The Darkening Glass, on Ruskin' (Columbia University Press, 1961); and 'Carlyle and the Burden of History' (Harvard University Press, 1985).
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1. The Age of Elegy
2. Carlyle: History and the Human Voice
3. Stopping for Death: Tennyson's In Memoriam
4. Tennyson and the Passing of Arthur
5. Rusking's Benediction: A Reading of Fors Clavigera
6. Water into Wine: The Miracle of Ruskin's Praeterita
7. Mr. Darwin Collects Himself
8. The Oxford Elegists: Newman, Arnold, Hopkins
9. Swinburne and the Ravages of Time
10. Walter Pater and the Art of Evanescence
11. Varieties of Infernal Experience: The Fall of the City in Victorian Literature
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