Jared Curtis

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Jared Ralph Curtis (born 1936) is Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University.

Curtis received his BA from Yale University in 1957, his MA from the University of Michigan in 1961 and his PhD from Cornell University in 1966. After jobs at Susquehanna University, Indiana University and the University of Arizona, he joined Simon Fraser University as an Associate Professor in 1971. From 1971 to 1995 he was Professor of English at Simon Fraser.

He is internationally known for his work in editing the work and manuscript materials of William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats: he has supervised the Cornell University Press editions of Wordsworth and Yeats.

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Wordsworth's experiments with tradition; the lyric poems of 1802, with texts of the poems based on early manuscripts, Cornell University Press, 1971. ISBN 978-0801406621
(ed.) Poems in two volumes, and other poems, 1800-1807, by William Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-801-41445-8
(ed.) The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth, Bristol Classical Press, 1993; rev. ed., Humanities Ebooks, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84760-004-2
(ed.) Early Poems and Fragments, 1785-1797, by William Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-801-43318-5
(ed.) Last Poems, 1821-1850, by William Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-801-43625-7
(ed.) The Land of Heart's Desire: manuscript materials, by W. B,. Yeats, Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-801-44048-3