eth Bishop • William Blake • Eavan Boland • Gwendolyn Brooks • Robert Browning • Julia de Burgos • Paul Celan • E. E. Cummings • Emily Dickinson • John Donne • S. Eliot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen Ginsberg • Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-

eth Bishop • William Blake • Eavan Boland • Gwendolyn Brooks • Robert Browning • Julia de Burgos • Paul Celan • E. E. Cummings • Emily Dickinson • John Donne • S. Eliot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen Ginsberg • Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-

eth Bishop • William Blake • Eavan Boland • Gwendolyn Brooks • Robert Browning • Julia de Burgos • Paul Celan • E. E. Cummings • Emily Dickinson • John Donne • S. Eliot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen Ginsberg • Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-

position, and so I was careful to publish under the gender-neutral name of N. J. C. Andreasen. Not long after this, a book written about the poet John Donne was accepted for publication by Princeton University Press. Instead of feeling elated, I felt almost ashamed and self-indulgent. Who would this boo