Arthur Kirsch


Arthur C. Kirsch is an American literary critic noted for his scholarly writings on Shakespeare, Dryden, and W. H. Auden. He taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he is now professor emeritus.
Books:Jacobean Dramatic Perspectives, 1972Dryden's Heroic Drama, 1972The Passions of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, 1990Shakespeare and the Experience of Love, 1991
  • W. H. Auden, Lectures on Shakespeare, 2002
  • W. H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare' "The Tempest", 2005Auden and Christianity, 2005