Paul F Betz
Title
Professor Emeritus
Department
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
General profile
Phone
202-687-7550
Fax
202-687-5445
Bio
Paul Betz is Professor in the Department of English.
His research and teaching interests include: Wordsworth and the Wordsworth circle; 19th Century literature; lyric poetry; textual
scholarship (editing, bibliography and literary forgery).
He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University and B.A. from La Salle College.
Publications he has written include: Cornell Wordsworth edition of Benjamin the Waggoner (1981, revised 1989); "After the Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1801-1802" (1973); "Wordsworth's First Acquaintance with Blake's Poetry" (1970); (with Jonathan Wordsworth and Robert Metzger) British Romantic Art (1990); "Pictures for a Revolution: Ten Contemporary Images" (in Wordsworth in Context, 1992). Romantic Archaeologies (1995); Advisory Editor, The Friend: Comment on Romanticism; William Wordsworth and the Romantic Imagination (2000).
He has received the following honors, grants and awards: President, Wordsworth Trust America; Visiting Scholar, Cornell Society for the Humanities (Jan-June 2000).
His research and teaching interests include: Wordsworth and the Wordsworth circle; 19th Century literature; lyric poetry; textual
scholarship (editing, bibliography and literary forgery).
He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University and B.A. from La Salle College.
Publications he has written include: Cornell Wordsworth edition of Benjamin the Waggoner (1981, revised 1989); "After the Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1801-1802" (1973); "Wordsworth's First Acquaintance with Blake's Poetry" (1970); (with Jonathan Wordsworth and Robert Metzger) British Romantic Art (1990); "Pictures for a Revolution: Ten Contemporary Images" (in Wordsworth in Context, 1992). Romantic Archaeologies (1995); Advisory Editor, The Friend: Comment on Romanticism; William Wordsworth and the Romantic Imagination (2000).
He has received the following honors, grants and awards: President, Wordsworth Trust America; Visiting Scholar, Cornell Society for the Humanities (Jan-June 2000).
Education
- Ph.D. () Cornell University,
- M.A. () Cornell University,
- B.A. () LaSalle College,
Upcoming Events
- Nov 24, 12pm-1pm: CCT Library Research Help with David Gibbs
- Nov 24, 6pm: Tuesday Film Series: Being Jewish in France
- Dec 1, 12pm-1pm: CCT Library Research Help with David Gibbs
