Edward Engelberg is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chairman, Joint Program of Literary Studies, Brandeis University. He is the author of many articles and editor of The Symbolist Poem: The Development of the English Tradition (1967). In addition, he authored The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats's Aesthetic (1988) and The Unknown Distance: From Consciousness to Conscience, Goethe to Camus (1972).