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University of Wyoming
Cedric Reverand II

Cedric Reverand II
Professor
General Editor of Eighteenth-Century Life

B.A. Yale University 1963; M.A. Columbia University 1964; Ph.D. Cornell University 1972
reverand@uwyo.edu • 307-766-6298 • Hoyt 334

 

Office Hours: By appt.

 

 

Harpsichord: French double (8', 8', 4', lute stop) by Milan Misina, Oxford, 1987.

Motto: Opening lines of Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687)

Engraving: 17th-century, by Nicholas Bonnard (Muse du Louvre), of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-87), court composer to Louis XIV. While conducting a Te Deum he had composed to celebrate the King's recovery from an operation, Lully got carried away and inadvertently stabbed himself in the toe with the cane he was using to beat out time (this was before conductors used batons); the toe developed an abscess, gangrene set in, and he died, making him one of the few musicians to have killed himself while performing.

Academic Positions


Professor, 1982-
Director of UW Cultural Programs, 1983-
Graduate Student Advisor (English Department), 1990-2003
Associate Professor, 1977-82
Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, 1972-77
Lecturer, St. John's University (NY), 1966-67


Honors & Distinctions

George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor Award, 2003 (UW's highest honor)
Pepsi Award for Excellence, 2003
Western Arts Alliance Award for Outstanding Service to the Performing Arts in the West, 1999
Fellow (1993) and Life Member (Hon), Clare Hall (Cambridge)
University of Wyoming Ellbogen Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1987.
Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Publications

Book:

Dryden's Final Poetic Mode: The Fables. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Contributions to Books:

"Joshua Reynolds, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sarah Siddons, and the Battle of the Tragic Muses.. The Expanding Universe: The Project of Eighteenth-Century Studies: Festschrift for Jim Springer Borck. Ed. Kevin C. Cope and Cedric D. Reverand II. New York: AMS Press (forthcoming).
"Dryden and the Canon: Absorbing and Rejecting the Burden of the Past." Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Ed. Maximillian Novak and Jayne Lewis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. 203-25.


"The Final 'Memorial of My Own Principles': Dryden's Alter Egos in His Later Career." John Dryden:
Tercentenary Essays. Edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.
Pp. 282-307.

"John Dryden." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. CI: British Prose Writers, 1660-1800. Edited by
Donald T. Siebert. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1991. Pp. 139-71.

Articles:

"John Dryden: Personal Concerns of the Impersonal Poet," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era" 13 (2006): 1-23.

"Christopher Wren's Stylistic Development." Eighteenth-Century Life 24 n.s. 2 (2001): 81-115.

"Dryden's 'Essay of Dramatick Poesy': The Poet and the World of Affairs." Studies in English Literature 22
(1982): 375-93.

"Dryden on Dryden in 'To Sir Godfrey Kneller.'" Papers on Language and Literature 17 (1981): 164-80.

"Ut Pictura Poesis, and Pope's ‘Satire II, i.'" Eighteenth-Century Studies 9 (1976): 553-68; rpt. in Pope:
Recent Essays by Several Hands [Essential Articles on Pope Series]. Edited by Maynard Mack and
James A. Winn. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1980.


Other Scholarly Work

General Editor, Eighteenth-Century Life, 2004-

General Editor, Scriblerian, 2003-2004

Contributing Editor to the authoritative Newington Defoe Edition, now in progress (I am to edit The Journal of
the Plague Year).

Contributing Editor & Reviewer for Annotated Bibliography for English Studies, Great Britain, 1999- (I am
responsible for a continuing critical bibliography of Dryden).

Advisory Board Member, Bucknell University Press (its 18th-century series).

English Book Review Editor for The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. New York: AMS Press,
1990-94.

Contributing Editor for The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. New York: AMS Press, 1982-94 (author of 700+ unsigned reviews).

Interests & Hobbies

Music (both listening and playing, both classical and jazz), photography (view-camera stuff), art, architecture, baseball (National League), running.
 


 

 
 

Research Interests:
My primary area of interest is 17th and 18th-century English literature, and most of my publications are on poetry in that period. As you may have gathered from the photograph above, music is also one of my interests, and I have long taught interdisciplinary courses of one sort or another on music, art, architecture, and literature. I have also regularly taught the Dickens course, which came about because of an auxiliary interest in novels.

 

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