Ian Balfour's teaching and research interests include Romantic poetry and prose, contemporary theory and criticism, and 18th-century poetry and philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language). He is the author of Northrop Frye (1988) and essays on the Romantics (Wordsworth, Blake, Godwin, Inchbald), Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and on numerous topics in popular culture (music, tv, film). He has just completed a book on The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. He has taught at Cornell, Stanford, SUNY Buffalo, and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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