Henry Weinfield
Concurrent Professor, Department of English
Professor and Chair of Department, Program of Liberal Studies
Specialty
Nineteenth-century British and twentieth-century American literature, poetry writing.
Degrees
B.A., City College of New York; M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Profile
Weinfield is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems; of a translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme; and of a literary study, The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History. His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals. His verse translation of Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony (with Catherine Schlegel of the Classics Department) was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2006. He is working on a book on the blank verse tradition in English poetry, and recently completed a book on the American poets George Oppen and William Bronk. His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals.
Publications
The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
The Poet Without a Name: Gray’s Elegy and the Problem of History. Carbonville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Hesiod. Theogony and Works and Days. Translated by Catherine Schlegel and Henry Weinfield. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Mallarmé, Stéphane. Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé. Translated by Henry Weinfield. Berekely: University of California Press, 1995.
Contact Information
379 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7483
hweinfie@nd.edu