University of Virginia Library

Guggenheim Taps
Langbaum, Kirsch

Two University English professors
have received Guggenheim Fellowships
to continue special literary
projects.

Robert Langhaum, James
Branch Cabell Professor of English,
will use his grant to complete work
on a collection of his essays to be
published by Oxford University
Press and to write a book on the
mysteries of identity as a theme in
19th century literature.

Arthur C. Kirsch, associate professor
of English, will complete a
book called "The Jacobean Theater
of Detachment," a study of tragicomic,
patterns in Jacobean and
Caroline drama.

Two hundred seventy scholars,
scientists and artists across the
nation received fellowships totaling
$2,214,500 from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
this year. There were 1977 applicants
for the awards given for
scholarly and scientific research to
persons whose previous work is
noteworthy and to persons of
outstanding, demonstrated creative
ability in the fine arts.

Mr. Langbaum is well known
throughout the United States and
England as a lecturer and scholar of
19th century literature. His book
"The Poetry of Experience: The
Dramatic Monologue in Modern
Literary Tradition" is considered a
classic of criticism in 19th century
studies.

Among his other books are "The
Victorian Age: Essays in History
and in Social and Literary Criticism,"
an anthology, and "The
Gaiety of Vision: A Study of Isak
Dinesen's Art."

The author also of numerous
scholarly articles, Mr. Langbaum is
a graduate of Cornell. University
and earned his master's and doctoral
degrees at Columbia University.

A specialist in 17th century
literature, Mr. Kirsch is the author
of "Dryden's Heroic Drama,"
editor of "Literary Criticism of
John Dryden" and co-editor of
"Restoration." His articles also
have appeared in scholarly journals.

Mr. Kirsch is a former Fulbright
Scholar to St. John's College at
Oxford and a Folger Shakespeare
Library Fellow. He holds bachelor's
degrees from Cornell and Oxford
universities and a Ph.D. from
Princeton University.

Mr. Kirsch will use his grant
from February through August of
1970 to do research in the British
Museum in London while Mr.
Langbaum, whose grant covers July
of this year through January of
1970, will do research this summer
in Italy, England and Ireland.

The Guggenheim Foundation
was established in 1925 by the late
U.S. Senator Simon Guggenheim
and Mrs. Guggenheim in memory of
a son, John Simon Guggenheim,
who died in 1922.