Contact Information

Office: 4023 JFSB

Phone: 422-8235

Email: John_Talbot@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring 2012:

Not teaching Spring 2012

Student Consultations:
By appointment

Biography: John Talbot specializes in the relationship of Ancient Greek and Latin to English literature. He took his doctorate in Classics at Boston University.

His third book, a study of Greek lyric meters in English poetry, is under contract from the Duckworth (London). His second book, a volume of poems called Rough Translation, appears in 2012. His first book is a volume of poems, The Well-Tempered Tantrum.

He is currently writing chapters on Auden, Lowell, and nineteenth century translation for The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

His articles on ancient languages and English literature have appeared in such venues as Classical Journal, Classical and Modern Literature, Studies in Philology, Essays in Criticism, Arion, Translation and Literature, and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.

His literary criticism has appeared in The Yale Review, The Weekly Standard, and The New Criterion.

He has lately contributed chapters to the volumes Ted Hughes and the Classics (Oxford University Press, 2009), Perceptions of Horace: A Poet and his Readers (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (Oxford University Press, 2006).

His verse translation from the Greek appears in the Norton anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2009).

He has published poems in Poetry, The Yale Review, The American Scholar, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Arion, Southwest Review, Quarterly West, Agenda, Atlanta Review, Literary Imagination, and others both in the US and Britain.

He has served as a referee for Oxford University Press and for such journals as Classical and Modern Literature, The International Journal of the Classical Tradition, and Translantion & Literature. He has sat on the national council of the Association of Literary Critics, Scholars, and Writers.

Degrees: PhD (Classics), Boston University, 2001

Interests: Classical/English literary relations, literary translation, poetic meter, writing poetry

Classical Tradition, Poetry