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Richard W. Poirier, assistant professor of English, is leaving Harvard to become Chairman of the English Department at Rutgers University, the CRIMSON has learned. Poirier will assume his new post next fall...
...addition to his administrative duties, Poirier will teach a course in American literature and one in English literature since 1800. Attached to his Chairmanship will be the title of professor of English...
...Poirier, who is currently on sabbatical, was best known at Harvard for teaching Humanities 6, an introduction to literature emphasizing close textual analysis. His other courses included a survey of modern American fiction and a study of Joyce, Faulkner and Lawrence. Poirier has been at Harvard since...
...Richard Poirier (still here, thank goodness), who must rank high on anybody's list of people with important things to say, demonstrates, in a paper on Twain and Austen a critical method he has been exploring for some time (and in which he will give a course next year), that of comparing European and American authors in an effort to understand the differences between the two societies and their literature. His is a difficult and not always clear argument, but those who follow it to the end of its considerable length will be amply rewarded...
...editor, Poirier (along with Brower) is indirectly responsible for the bleakness of much of his volume. What one misses most in the majority of these essays is the sense of what used to be called "vocation"; the three essays I singled out have it, and that makes them exciting. De Man is obviously fascinated by the overt mysticism of Yeats and the more furtive strangeness of Wordsworth; Taylor really sees in Parkman a figure whose own history made his writings something a great deal more interesting than mere chronicles; while Poirier is dedicated to a particular way of seeing...