MINER, Earl (Roy)

MINER, Earl (Roy). American, b. 1927. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Translations. Career: Taught at Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1953-55, and University of California, Los Angeles, 1955-72; Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, NJ, 1975-, now Emeritus (Professor of English, 1972-75). Publications: The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature, 1958; (with R.H. Brower) Japanese Court Poetry, 1961; Nihon o Utsusu Chiisana Kagami, 1962; Restoration Dramatists, 1967; Dryden's Poetry, 1967; (with R.H. Brower) Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time, 1967; An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, 1968; The Metaphysical Mode from Donne to Cowley, 1969; The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton, 1971; John Dryden, 1973; The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden, 1974; Principles of Classical Japanese Literature, 1985; (with H. Odagiri and R.E. Morrell) The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, 1985; Tozai Hikaku Bungaku Kenkyu, 1990; Comparative Poetics, 1990; Naming Properties, 1996. TRANSLATOR: Japanese Poetic Diaries, 1969; Japanese Linked Poetry, 1979; (with H. Odagiri) The Money's Straw Raincoat and Other Poetry of the Basho School, 1982. EDITOR: The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse, 1965; Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden, 1969; The Works of John Dryden, vol. III, 1969, vol. XV, 1976; Seventeenth- Century Imagery, 1971; English Criticism in Japan, 1972; Illustrious Evidence, 1975; Literary Uses of Typology from the Late Middle Ages to the Present, 1977; A History of Japanese Literature, 3 vols., 1984-91; (co) Authority and Transmission: Dryden and Others, 1993; (co-gen. ed.) The Force of Vision, 6 vols., 1994; (co) The Renewal of Song, 2000. Address: 22 McCosh, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A. Online address: miner@princeton.edu