Background
Albright, Daniel was born on October 29, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Frank J. and Leone Hinze Albright.
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Quantum Poetics examines the Modernist appropriation of scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the preverbal origins of poetry. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief in, and defense of, the purity of symbols. Daniel Albright demonstrates how Modernists created a whole new way of thinking about poetry and science as two different aspects of the same quest.
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Professor of Literature editor of Modernism
Albright, Daniel was born on October 29, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Frank J. and Leone Hinze Albright.
He received his Master of Philosophy in 1969 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1970, both from Yale. At Rochester, he studied musicology, which forever changed his career.
Albright is also the author of the book Quantum Poetics which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997. Albright began his undergraduate career as a mathematics major, but changed to English literature. Although trained at Yale as a literary critic, after the publication of his book Representation and the Imagination: Beckett, Kafka, Nabokov, and Schoenberg, he was invited by the University of Rochester to come teach there as a kind of liaison between the department of English and the Eastman School of Music.
Much of his subsequent work has been on literature and music, culminating with his recent book, Panaesthetics which addresses many arts and examines to what extent the arts are many or are one.
He was hired in 2003 in the Harvard departments of English, but later joined the Comparative Literature department and soon began offering courses in the Music department as well. Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, 1970-1975
Associate Professor, University of Virginia, 1975-1981
Professor, University of Virginia, 1981-1987
Visiting Professor, Universität München, 1986-1987
Professor, University of Rochester, 1987-2003
Richard L. Turner Professor in the Humanities, University of Rochester, 1995-2003
Affiliate, Department of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, 1998-2003
Professor of English and American Literature and Languages, Harvard University, 2003-2015
Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University 2004-2015
Affiliate, Department of Music, Harvard University, 2005-2015.
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Author: The Myth Against Myth, 1972, Representation and the Imagination, 1981, Quantum Poetics, 1998. Editor: Warner Bros. Yeats: The Poems, 1990, others. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Karin Larson, June 19, 1977. 1 child, Christopher Torrey.