Peter J. Manning
Peter J. Manning graduated from Harvard University and received his
PhD from Yale University. He taught at the University of California,
Berkeley, from 1967 to 1975 and is now Professor of English at the
University of Southern California. He is the author of Byron and His
Fictions (1978) and Reading Romantics (1990), as well as several other
essays and reviews on the English Romantics, and the recipient of
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH. With Susan Wolfson
he edited Lord Byron: Selected Poems for Penguin (1996); the same team will
shortly bring out an edition of the verse romances of Sir Walter Scott and a
volume of selections from Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Hood, and W. M.
Praed. Professors Wolfson and Manning are also editors of the Romantics
section of a new anthology of British Literature forthcoming from Longman.
Manning continues work on a study of the late Wordsworth, which he fears may
suffer the same fate as his original's Recluse, inspiring a similar lack of
general regret.
pmanning@hermes.usc.edu