Downloading the Poetic Self

Frederic Will is President of the Humanities Institute (humanitiesinstitute.org), an online research institution devoted to advanced research and study in the Humanities. He has published fifty-six books, ranging from cultural history, philosophy, poetry, translation, and fiction to travel narrative, and has received six Fulbright Grants from the United States Government and multi-year support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his journal of world poetry in translation, Micromegas. He was a founding editor, with William Arrowsmith, Donald Carne-Ross, and John Sullivan, of the journal of Classical culture, Arion. His poetry has received praise in the UK; the TLS has described his poetic work as “accomplished and insightful,” and his criticism as “brilliant.” His lifetime literary papers are collected in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, USA.