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Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at Yale University.[2]

Marie Borroff
Born	(1923-09-10)September 10, 1923 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 5, 2019(2019-07-05) (aged 95) Branford, Connecticut, U.S.[1]
Nationality	American
Occupation	Poet translator professor
Title	Sterling Professor of English
Relatives	Edith Borroff (sister)
Academic background
Education	University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Academic work
Institutions	Yale University

Life

Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff,[3] and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946,[4] and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale. In 1965, she was the first woman appointed to be an English professor. She retired in 1994.[5]

An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.[6]

Works

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study. Yale University Press. 1963.
• Marie Borroff, ed. (1963). Wallace Stevens; a collection of critical essays. Prentice-Hall.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a new verse translation. Translator Marie Borroff. Norton. 1967.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Pearl: a new verse translation. Translator Marie Borroff. W. W. Norton. 1977. ISBN 978-0-393-09144-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Language and the Poet. University of Chicago Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-226-06651-6.
• Marie Borroff; Mary Teresa Tavormina; Robert F. Yeager, eds. (1995). The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85991-480-2.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Patience ; and Pearl: verse translations. Translator Marie Borroff. W.W. Norton. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-97658-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Stars and Other Signs. Yale University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-300-09570-8.
• Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond. Yale University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09612-5.
• Albert Gelpi, ed. (1993). "From "Recent Poetry"". Denise Levertov: selected criticism. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06416-8.

References

External links

• "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1-19)", Norton Anthology of English Literature
• Guest lecture on Wallace Stevens focusing on the poem The Auroras of Autumn (part of Open Yale Courses).
• BorroffReadingGawain.com

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