CLARK, David Ridgley

CLARK, David Ridgley. American, b. 1920. Genres: Theatre, Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, instructor, 1951-58, assistant professor, 1958, associate professor, 1958-65, professor, 1965-85, chairman, Dept. of English, 1975-76, emeritus professor of English, 1985-. Publications: (with G.S. Koehler, L.O. Barron, and R.G. Tucker) A Curious Quire (poetry), 1962; W.B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality, 1965, rev. ed. (with R. Clark), 1993; Dry Tree (poetry), 1966; (with F.B. Millett and A.W. Hoffman) Reading Poetry, 1968; Lyric Resonance: Glosses on Some Poems of Yeats, Frost, Crane, Cummings and Others (essays), 1972; That Black Day: The Manuscripts of Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment, 1980; Yeats at Songs and Choruses, 1983; The Winding Stair (1929), Manuscript Materials, 1995; Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932), Manuscript Materials, 1999; Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems, Manuscript Materials, 2003. EDITOR: (with R. Skelton) Irish Renaissance, 1965; Riders to the Sea, 1970; Studies in The Bridge, 1970; (with G.P. Mayhew) A Tower of Polished Black Stones: Early Versions of The Shadowy Waters, 1971; (with M.J. Sidnell and G.P. Mayhew) Druid Craft: The Writing of The Shadowy Waters, 1971; Twentieth Century Interpretations of Murder in the Cathedral, 1971; Critical Essays on Hart Crane, 1982; (with J. McGuire) W.B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus, 1989; (with R.E. Clark) The Plays, vol. 2 of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, 2001. Address: 481 Holgerson Rd, Sequim, WA 98382-9536, U.S.A.