Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of
English at SMU, and the editor-in-chief of the
Southwest Review. He teaches, and writes about,
English and American poetry, and has been a
frequent contributor to the Leisure & Arts pages
of the Wall Street Journal for twenty years. He
also writes for Opera News and D Magazine. Last
December, Oxford University Press published his
selected essays, "Imaginative Transcripts," and
later this month Farrar Straus Giroux will
publish his book (on which he will base his
table talk) "Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary
Happiness."
Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of
English at SMU, and the editor-in-chief of the
Southwest Review. He teaches, and writes about,
English and American poetry, and has been a
frequent contributor to the Leisure & Arts pages
of the Wall Street Journal for twenty years. He
also writes for Opera News and D Magazine. Last
December, Oxford University Press published his
selected essays, "Imaginative Transcripts," and
later this month Farrar Straus Giroux will
publish his book (on which he will base his
table talk) "Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary
Happiness."