13 Facts About Daniel Albright

Daniel Albright was the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard and the editor of Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources.

Daniel Albright was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois and completed his undergraduate studies on a full scholarship at Rice in 1967.

Daniel Albright received his MPhil in 1969 and PhD in 1970, both from Yale.

Daniel Albright held an NEH fellowship from 1973 to 1974, was a Guggenheim Fellow from 1976 to 1977, and more recently, he was a 2012 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Daniel Albright began his undergraduate career as a mathematics major, but changed to English literature.

Daniel Albright 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.

Daniel Albright's criticism reads Yeats against Yeats, not to reduce the poems to biographical explanations but to understand them as symbolic manifestations of the poet at different stages of his career.

In 1985, Albright published a review in The New York Review of Books of the Richard Finneran-edited Collected Poems of W B Yeats, a comprehensive 1983 volume based on the Macmillan Publishers edition.

Daniel Albright made the case for a pure chronological ordering of the poems, especially since "Oisin"'s themes reverberate throughout the later work.

Daniel Albright criticized Finneran's reluctance to use biographical interpretations in his scholarly glosses:.

Daniel Albright was a literature professor at the University of Virginia when he published his third book, Representation and the Imagination: Beckett, Kafka, Nabokov and Schoenberg.

The Schoenberg chapter prompted an invitation to teach at the University of Rochester, with Daniel Albright acting as a kind of liaison between the department of English and the Eastman School of Music.

At Rochester, Daniel Albright published Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts, recently described by Adam Parkes as "an astoundingly original rewriting of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoon in Modernist terms":.