Contact Information

Office: 4023 JFSB

Phone: 422-8235

E-mail: John_Talbot@byu.edu

Office Hours:
WF 2-3 and by appointment

John Talbot specializes in the relationship of Ancient Greek and Latin to English literature. He took his doctorate in Classics at Boston University, concentrating in Latin poetry. Before coming to BYU, he taught courses in Latin, Greek, and English at Boston University, including eight years as a founding faculty member of the Boston University's Academy program.

He is the author of a volume of poems, The Well-Tempered Tantrum (2004), and a number of articles on the relationship of ancient languages to English literature. He has published poems in such journals as Poetry, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, Agenda (UK), Quarterly West, The Formalist, Light, and Arion, The American Scholar andAtlanta Review.

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

He has lately contributed chapters to the forthcoming volumes Ted Hughes and the Classics, (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Perceptions of Horace: A Poet and his Readers, (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

He has served as a referee for Oxford University Press, Classical and Modern Literature and The International Journal of the Classical Tradition .

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