Background
Martin Bidney was born on April 21, 1943, in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of David and Evelyn (Breslin) Bidney.
107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Bidney graduated from Indiana University—Bloomington with a bachelor's degree in 1963, as well as a doctorate's degree in 1971.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Bidney received his master's degree from Harvard University in 1965.
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
Bidney devoted all his career to teaching at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
Bidney devoted all his career to teaching at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Bidney graduated from Indiana University—Bloomington with a bachelor's degree in 1963, as well as a doctorate's degree in 1971.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Bidney received his master's degree from Harvard University in 1965.
(First extensive comparative study of William Blake and Jo...)
First extensive comparative study of William Blake and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the most ambitious poet-thinkers of the Romantic era.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826206514/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(After explaining his new methodology, Bidney identifies a...)
After explaining his new methodology, Bidney identifies and discusses epiphanies in the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Pater, Thomas Carlyle, Leo Tolstoy, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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1997
(Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition i...)
Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition it created.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586842757/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia an...)
Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia and his essays on Islamic culture.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586842846/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Martin Bidney’s A Unifying Light contains 140 original po...)
Martin Bidney’s A Unifying Light contains 140 original poems that respond to passages of the Qur’an. This unifying scripture of Islam is a work of poetic depth.
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2014
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2016
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2017
(A villanelle is a brief poem with a double refrain, suite...)
A villanelle is a brief poem with a double refrain, suited for personal wisdom writing. The dialogues between casual blogatelle and focused villanelle offer a continuing conversation to engage the reader.
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2017
(Book of the Amphibrach is the first of several verse jour...)
Book of the Amphibrach is the first of several verse journals I aim to offer, each of them highlighting a “foot” (syllable structure) or line unit largely neglected or under-used in Anglo tradition.
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2018
(This book of word songs in unexpected melodic patterns wi...)
This book of word songs in unexpected melodic patterns will surprise you by its equally unusual liveliness.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1987402561/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Martin Bidney was born on April 21, 1943, in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of David and Evelyn (Breslin) Bidney.
Bidney graduated from Indiana University—Bloomington with a bachelor's degree in 1963. He holds a doctorate of the same university from 1971. He received his master's degree from Harvard University in 1965.
Bidney devoted all his career to teaching at the State University of New York at Binghamton, first as an instructor, and from 1989, as a professor of English and comparative literature.
In 2004, Bidney has retired and currently holds the position of professor emeritus at the university. He also continues working as a freelance author and is a founder-editor of Dialogic Poetry Press.
Martin Bidney is an experienced Professor Emeritus with a demonstrated thirty-five-year history of working in higher education and since "retirement" a founder-editor of Dialogic Poetry Press and publisher of 17 books of poetry original and translated from Polish, Russian, and German. He is also a contributor of more than seventy articles, translations, and reviews to academic journals, including Slavic and East European Journal, Byron Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in Comparative Literature, Victorian Newsletter, and Studies in Short Fiction.
(After explaining his new methodology, Bidney identifies a...)
1997(Book of the Amphibrach is the first of several verse jour...)
2018(First extensive comparative study of William Blake and Jo...)
1988(This book of word songs in unexpected melodic patterns wi...)
2018(Martin Bidney’s A Unifying Light contains 140 original po...)
2014(Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia an...)
2010(A villanelle is a brief poem with a double refrain, suite...)
2017(Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition i...)
2009Bidney is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.
Bidney married Katherine Combellick in 1975. In 1981 the couple got divorced. Bidney has a daughter from the first marriage, Sarah.
