Background
Lipking, Lawrence was born on April 28, 1934 in New York City.
( At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandon...)
At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.
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Lipking, Lawrence was born on April 28, 1934 in New York City.
Student, Columbia University, 1952. Bachelor, Western Reserve University, 1955. Master of Arts (Woodrow Wilson fellow), Cornell University, 1956.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1962.
Member faculty department English Princeton University, 1960-1979, professor comparative literature, 1975-1979. Chester Tripp professor humanities Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1979, director program in comparative literature and theory, 1982-1984. Master Princeton Inn College, 1973-1976.
Guest lecturer numerous colleges universities in, United States, United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany, Australia, India, since 1965.
( By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been...)
( At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandon...)
Chairman Princeton Friends of the Eighteenth Century, 1973-1976. Member council of scholars Library of Congress, 1984-1986. Trustee Newberry Library, since 1986.
Member School of Criticism and Theory, Modern Language Association (executive council since 1987), American Comparative Literature Association, American Society 18th-Century Studies, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Joanna Brizdle, 1965.