James Simpson
James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge), The Middle Ages, is Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. An Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text; Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry; Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547; Volume 2 of The Oxford English Literary History; Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents; and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition. With Brian Cummings, he edited Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, and with Sarah Peverley John Hardyng’s Chronicle. His Reynard the Fox: A New Translation appeared in 2015.
Books by James Simpson
James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt
Hardback, 2015
Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.
James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt
E Book, 2015
Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.
Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Julie Crawford, James Noggle, James Simpson
Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2024
Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Crawford, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, James Simpson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Noggle
Eleventh Edition, Package 1: Volumes A, B, C, Paperback
A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.
Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Orlemanski, James Simpson
Eleventh Edition, Volume A, Paperback, 2024
