John Chaffee is a professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of The Masks of Narcissus: A Study in Poetic Self-Revelation and Theory and Practice in American Poetry: A Critical Introduction to Major Poets and Their Works. His book on Keats and his work on Romantic poetry, "Romanticism and the Absolute," has been reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Times, the Literary Review, Poetry, College English, and elsewhere. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, a Ford Foundation Fellow in Portugal, a Guggenheim Fellow in Italy, a recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a recipient of a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, a fellow in Poetry at Emory University, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa
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He has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from Oxford University Press.