Arthur Kirsch

Arthur Kirsch (born 1932) is a literary critic noted for his scholarly writings on Shakespeare, Dryden, and W. H. Auden. He taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he is now Professor Emeritus.

Books:

• Jacobean Dramatic Perspectives, 1972
• Dryden's Heroic Drama, 1972
• The Passions of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, 1990
• Shakespeare and the Experience of Love, 1991
• W. H. Auden, Lectures on Shakespeare (editor), 2002
• W. H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare' "The Tempest" (editor), 2005
• Auden and Christianity, 2005