Paul Scott Derrick is a Senior Lecturer of American literature at the University of Valencia, Spain. His main field of interest is Romanticism and American Transcendentalism and their manifestations in the art and thought of the 20th and 21st centuries. His critical works include: Thinking for a Change: Gravity’s Rainbow and Symptoms of the Paradigm Shift in Occidental Culture (1994) and “We stand before the secret of the world”: Traces along the Pathway of American Romanticism (2003). He has co-edited several critical studies, including: Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry, with Viorica Patea (2007); and with Norman Jope and Catherine E. Byfield, The Salt Companion to Richard Berengarten (Salt Publishing, forthcoming). As a translator, he has published bilingual English-Spanish editions of various works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Adams and Emily Dickinson and most recently, has co-authored with Juan López Gavilán a critical Spanish edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs [La tierra de los abetos puntiagudos] (2008). He has also published translations into English of poems by Jorge Luís Borges, Luís Cernuda and Pablo Neruda, and together with Miguel Teruel, a small selection of Richard Berengarten’s poems in Spanish, Las manos y la luz [Hands and Light] (2008).
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