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Prizes

 

Prizes for Graduate Students

The Elizabethan Club gives an annual prize, administered by the Department of English, for an essay by a graduate student on Renaissance or Restoration Drama. The student need not necessarily be in English; he or she might be in Comparative Literature, or the Program in Renaissance Studies. To be considered, please submit two anonymous copies of your essay to Erica Sayers in 106 LC no later than noon on Thursday, May 30, 2008.  Please also submit an additional, separate copy of your title page that includes your name and email address.

Poetry Prizes: All registered students, graduate or undergraduate, may compete for the Academy of American Poets prize (for the best poem or group of poems, unpublished or published in a university magazine), the Cook prize (for the best unpublished poem or group of poems), and the Gordon Barber Memorial prize for poetry. In addition, the Prizes Committee may award all or some of the "James Veech Prize for imaginative writing" to poetry contestants. Students may submit up to six pages of poetry. If your poems are many but short it is better to select four to five pages of your best. Submit poetry entries in duplicate. The deadline is in April. For further information, visit the English department's Undergraduate Prizes page.

2007-2008 Prize Winners

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students who have won departmental and university prizes this year for their excellent work as poets and literary critics!

Elizabethan Club Prize for criticism on a Renaissance topic (1st place):
David Currell, "Counterfactual and Contingency in Paradise Lost: Milton's Translation of the Homeric Alternity Locution "

Elizabethan Club Prize for criticism on a Renaissance topic (honorable mention):
Michael Komorowski, "Private Property and the Nature of Marvell's Republicanism"

Noah Webster Prize for work in the history of the language (co-winner):
Irina Dumitrescu, "Bede's ABC's and the Miracle of Language"

Noah Webster Prize for work in the history of the language (co-winner):
Sarah Novacich, "The Old English Exodus and the Read Sea"

Noah Webster Prize for work in the history of the language (honorable mention):
William Weber, "Translating Poetically: A Note on a Translation of Beowulf" (with translation)

Noah Webster Prize for work in the history of the language (honorable mention):
Annmarie Drury, "In Poetry and Translation, Robert Browning's Case for Innovation"

Academy of American Poets Prize:
Erica Levy

James A. Veech Prize for poetry (1st place):
Erica Levy