Virginia J. Tufte
Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
Contact at: (310) 657-5380 or tufte@usc.edu
Expertise:
- English Renaissance poetry
- John Milton and Paradise Lost
- illustrators of Paradise Lost
- English women poets of the 17th century
- writing life histories
- Author of The Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and Its
Development in England (1970); Grammar as Style (1971); as well
as numerous essays (in Milton volumes) on visual representations of
Paradise Lost (1986, 1987, 1988, 1999, 2000)
Author-producer of Reaching for Paradise: The Life and Art of Carlotta
Petrina, a 55-minute video-biography for public television (1993)
Co-author of Exercises in Creativity (1971) and Remembered Lives: The
Work of Ritual, Storytelling and Growing Older (1992)
Editor of High Wedlock Then Be Honoured, an Anthology of Wedding
Poems (1970)
Co-editor of Changing Images of the Family (1979)
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