| E-mail | buttr (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Biography | Herbie Butterfield taught at Essex from 1966 until his retirement in 2002. He is the author of studies of Hart Crane and Robinson Jeffers and of numerous essays on other American writers, including Melville, James, Bierce, Cather, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. He has also edited a collection of essays on Modern American Poetry. Areas of special interest to him include Whitman and his poetic legacy, British writing of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods (Conrad, Ford and Yeats in particular), Modernism generally, writers of the American Middle and Far West, poets associated with the Imagist and Objectivist movements, with Black Mountain College, with the San Francisco renaissance and the Beats, and miscellaneous American writers (largely non-metropolitan) of fiction, both novels and short stories, and non-fictional prose. |
| Qualifications | BA, BLitt. Oxford |