Marjorie Levinson

Marjorie Levinson is F. L. Huetwell Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1991. Prior to that she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1991. She is the author of The Romantic Fragment Poem, Wordsworth's Great Period Poems, and Keats's Life of Allegory, and the editor of Rethinking Historicism. She has written numerous articles on Romantic and modern poetry and on critical theory (e.g., 'What is New Formalism?'). Her work tracks a...See more

Marjorie Levinson is F. L. Huetwell Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1991. Prior to that she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1991. She is the author of The Romantic Fragment Poem, Wordsworth's Great Period Poems, and Keats's Life of Allegory, and the editor of Rethinking Historicism. She has written numerous articles on Romantic and modern poetry and on critical theory (e.g., 'What is New Formalism?'). Her work tracks a transition from sociocultural critique to models derived from the postclassical physical and biological sciences. See less