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Robert N. Watson

Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, where he served as chair of the Faculty of Letters and Science and Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere.

Hiding from Pandemics, and from Ourselves: The Case of Ben Jonson

My UCLA seminar on “Poetry and Society in England, from the Spanish Armada to the Glorious Revolution” began, via Zoom, a few weeks ago. Last year I planned the syllabus with an opening session about death, focusing on what epitaphs and ...