Herman Asarnow, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of English
University of
Portland, Oregon
5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, Oregon 97203-5798
503-943-7244 asarnow@up.edu
Country Scene
The waterfall plunges in mist.
Who can
describe this desolate scene:
the long white river sliding through
the emerald shadows of the ancient canopy
...a shepherd's horn echoing on the valley,
fishnets stretched to dry on sandy flats.
A bell is tolling, fading, fading
just like love. Only poetry lasts.
Ho Xuan Huong (circa 1800,
Vietnam),
trans. John Balaban, Spring
Essence, Copper Canyon Press, 2000. (Click
to order.)
To reach UP's official pages,
click these links:
- University of Portland English Website
- Website for NUCL--Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature
- Schedule of the University of Portland's English Readings and Lectures Series
Welcome! On this page you will find
links to
- Information about Glass-Bottom Boat: Poems, by Herman Asarnow
- UP's English Senior Capstone Projects 2000-2010 (incomplete)
- Renaissance Images Web Site at UP
- The Styles of The Faerie Queene site at UP
- Link to University of Portland's Library Web Page
-
UP's Writing Center Web Site
- Writing-Embedded Project at the University of Portland (contact me for access to web-based information)
- Herman Asarnow's curriculum vitae
- Link to Painters' Self Portraits exhibit/pages
- Pictures from England's Lake District
Links to Herman Asarnow's course pages
(Click on the links for course materials and other information.)
Spring
2012 Courses
Updated March 26, 2012
ENG 112E Introduction to Literature Syllabus updated 3/26/12
ENG 112 G Introduction to Literature Syllabus updated 3/26/12
ENG 326A Shakespeare: Representative Plays
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Links to Literary Research Resources
& On-line Editions of Writers' Works
- Jack Lynch's Literary Resources (Extremely reliable)
- The Voice of the Shuttle (Humanities Research)
- Luminarium--Anniina Jokinen's fine site, featuring biographies & links for many early modern authors as well as background materials (some by professional scholars, some by student scholars)
- Early Modern Resources--Many interesting sites for information and usable material about the Early Modern era.
- Ohio State Renaissance Resources links page
- Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY--Compiled, edited and cross-referenced by Robert G. Shubinski, 1996 - 2001rgs@wwa.com
- Ian Lancashire's GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS (U. Toronto) Cambridge
- Modern American Poetry Site (U.Cal. Irvine) Resources about and copies of famous poems of many contemporary, and some 19th-century American poets.
- Academy of American Poets (find a biography, samples of poems, and some recordings of poems by contemporary and some earlier American poets)
Literary Magazines & Lists of Lit. Mag. Links
- Litline Journals Links
- NewPages Guide to Literary Periodicals
- Another link to a listing of literary magazine web sites
- Poet Lore
- The Antigonish Review
Rattle
-
Potomac
Review
-
Clackamas Literary Review
-
Prairie Schooner
- the Seattle Review
- North
Dakota Quarterly
-
South
Dakota Review
-
Gulf
Coast
-
Iron
Horse Literary Review
"To talk in publick, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar."
--Samuel Johnson, Chapter VIII, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia