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Books:

"Johnson" in Poems of Johnson and Goldsmith, ed. Alan Rudrum and Peter Dixon, Edward Arnold, London, 1966.  An edited selection of poems, in the Arnolds’s English Texts series, with a critical introduction and explanatory notes. 

A Critical Commentary on Paradise Lost, Macmillan, London, 1966

A Critical Commentary on Comus & Shorter Poems, Macmillan, London, 1967.

Modern Judgements on Milton, Macmillan, London, 1968 (a collection of essays with an introduction on the history of Milton criticism).

A Critical Commentary on Samson Agonistes, Macmillan, London, 1969. 

The Complete Poems of Henry Vaughan, Penguin, London, 1976; Yale University Press, 1981.  English edition re-issued (with revisions) in 1983, 1995.)

Writers of Wales:  Henry Vaughan, University of Wales Press and the Welsh Arts Council, 1981.

The Works of Thomas Vaughan, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984.

Essential Articles on Henry Vaughan, Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut, 1986.

The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth Century Verse and Prose, Broadview Press, 2000, with Associate Editors Holly Nelson and Joseph Black.

Articles, Notes and Book-chapters:

“Learn and Teach as synonyms in modern northern dialect: the philological background,” Doncaster Free Press, ca.1954. 

"Henry Vaughan's The Book:  A Hermetic Poem," in AUMLA (Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), No. 16 (1961), 161-165. 

"Henry Vaughan and the Theme of Transfiguration," Southern Review (Adelaide), No. 1 (1963), 54-68. . 

"Coleridge's This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," Southern Review (Adelaide), No. 2 (1964), 30-42. . 

"Some Errors in A.E. Waite's Transcription of Thomas Vaughan's MS Notebook," Notes & Queries, New Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, July 1966. . 

"English Teaching in our universities," The Listener, April 28, 1966, 616-617.

"Vaughan's The Night:  Some Hermetic Notes," Modern Language Review, Vol. 64, No. 1 (1969), 11-19. . 

"Polygamy in Paradise Lost, Essays in Criticism," Vol. 20, No. 1 (1970), 18-23. . 

An article on Milton, in a Japanese language encyclopaedia by Gakken Co. of Tokyo; date of publication unknown.   This commission came to me by way of a recommendation from the British Council.

"The Influence of Alchemy in the Poems of Henry Vaughan," Philological Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 4 (1970), 469-480. . 

"The Kent State Shootings," The Listener, 8 October 1970, 472-473.

"On the Teaching of Poetry," Rendezvous (Journal of Arts and Letters, Idaho State University), Vol. 6, No. 1 (1971), 45-50. .  

"Vaughan's Welshness:  the verb trample," English Language Notes, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1971), 115-118. . 

"Philosophical Implication in Lawrence's Women in Love," The Dalhousie Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (1971), 240-250. . 

"Vaughan's The Tempest:  A Source in Cornelius Agrippa," Notes & Queries, Vol. 19, No. 1 (1972), 19. . 

"An Emendation in Vaughan," Notes & Queries, Vol. 20, No. 5 (1973), 165. . 

"An Aspect of Vaughan's Hermeticism:  The Doctrine of Cosmic Sympathy," Studies in English Literature, Vol. 14 (1974), 129-138. . 

"Some Remarks on Henry Vaughan's Secular Poems," Poetry Wales, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1975), 36-54. . 

"A Crux in Henry Vaughan's Waterfall:  OED Defended," The Anglo-Welsh Review, Vol. 20, No. 55 (1975), 83-86. . 

"Thomas Vaughan's Lumen de Lumine:  An Interpretation of Thalia," in Literature and the Occult:  Essays in Comparative Literature, edited by Luanne Frank, University of Texas (1977), 234-243. . 

"The Penguin edition of Henry Vaughan's Complete Poems:  Corrigenda," Notes & Queries, Vol. 24 (1977), 556. . 

"Henry Vaughan," Times Literary Supplement, 25 February 1983, 190.

"Hamlet and facts," The Globe and Mail, April 16, 1986, A7.

"Contradictory terms," The Globe and Mail, July 8, 1986.

"History of 'thee' and 'thou' theologically interesting," The Globe and Mail, July 11, 1986, A6.

"Research Reports No. VI :’Theology and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England’," The Clark Newsletter: Bulletin of the UCLA Center for  17th- and 18th-Century Studies, Number 15, Fall 1988 pp. 5-7

"Henry Vaughan, the Liberation of the Creatures, and Seventeenth Century English Calvinism," The Seventeenth Century, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1989) 33-54.  

A letter headed “Charles Burney” in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4682 (December 25, 1992), p. 13.

A letter headed “Splash” in The London Review of Books, concerning Fiona Pitt-Kethley, 1992.

“On being a part of the whole,” in Moments, The Canadian Mental Health Association, 1995.  A brief essay, in an unpaginated volume.

“A Nautical Metaphor in Henry Vaughan's ‘Cock-Crowing’,” English Language Notes, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 (March 1996), 12-14. . 

“T.S.Eliot on Lancelot Andrewes's ‘word within a word’,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Fall 1996), 43-44. . 

“The Problem of Sexual Reference in George Herbert’s verse,” George Herbert Journal , Vol. 21, Nos 1& 2, Fall 1997 / Spring 1998, 19-32.

“Discerning the Spirit in Samson Agonistes : The Dalila Episode,” in “All in All” : Unity, Diversity and the Miltonic Perspective, eds. Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt, Selinsgrove: Susquahanna University Press, London: Associated University Presses, 1999, pp. 245-258. 

“Paradoxical Persona: Henry Vaughan's Self-Fashioning,” Huntington Library Quarterly  62, nos. 3 and 4, (1999): 351-68. 

“Resistance, Collaboration and Silence: Henry Vaughan and Breconshire Royalism,” in The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination, eds. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999, 102-118.

“For then the Earth shall be all Paradise: Milton, Vaughan and the neo-Calvinists on the Ecology of the Hereafter,” Scintilla: the journal of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association, No. 4 (2000), 39-52.  .

“Henry Vaughan and Rowland Watkyns, neighbours but not friends: a biographical puzzle reconsidered,” Scintilla: the journal of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association, No. 5 (2001), 61-71.

“Royalist Lyric,” a chapter in N.H. Keeble, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 181-197.

“Narrative, Typology and Politics in Henry Vaughan's ‘Isaac's Marriage’,” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2001/2002), 78-90. Reprinted in Scintilla 8 (2004), 9-18.

“Thomas Vaughan.” In The Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism cited by R. van den Broek, J.P. Brach, A. Faivre, and W. Hanegraaff. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

“Ethical Vegetarianism in 17th Century Britain: Its roots in 16th century European theological debate,” The Seventeenth Century, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2003), 76-92.

“Milton Scholarship and the Agon over Samson Agonistes,” Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 65 (2002), Nos. 3 & 4: 465-488. (Actually published in 2003).

A letter headed “Apollo's Heels,” The New York Review of Books, Vol. 50, No. 15, October 9, 2003: 49.

Life of Henry Vaughan, in The New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Life of Rowland Watkyns, in The New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Life of William Richards, in The New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Life of Thomas Vaughan, in Dictionary of gnosis and western esotericism, edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff; in collaboration with Antoine Favre, Roelof van den Broek, and Jean-Pierre Brach. Leiden; Boston, Mass: Brill, 2005.

“Henry Vaughan's Poems of Mourning,” in Of Paradise and Light: Essays on John Milton and Henry Vaughan in Honor of Alan Rudrum. Associated University Presses, 2004.

“Hegel hits the beach,” a letter in “The Times Literary Supplement,” No. 5287, July 30, 2004, 15.

“Not destroyed but hidden”: Paradise Lost, Edenic consciousness, and British Radicalism, Scintilla 11, 2007, 40-47.

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”: Henry Vaughan, Alchemical Philosophy, and the Great Rebellion,” in Stanton J. Linden, ed., Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture, New York, AMS Press, 2007.

“God’s Second Book and the Regenerate Mind: Some Early Modern Conversion Narratives,” in Ken Hiltner, ed., Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton’s England, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007, 201-216.

“Bringing Peace Back to Life: The Anglican Irenicism of Lancelot Andrewes, Henry Vaughan and Rowan Williams,” Scintilla 12 (2008), 111-120.

Broadcasts:

I kept no record of my work for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1958-64; I recall doing a talk on D.H. Lawrence around the time of the "Lady Chatterley" trial and some book reviews, for example of Peter de Vries, The Mackerel Plaza.  It probably amounted to about half a dozen items.

“Computer Dating in Los Angeles," recorded 18th September 1967, and later broadcast by the BBC.

"Does More Mean Worse?" (a discussion of the implications of the expansion of higher education), recorded 18th September 1967, and later broadcast by the BBC.

"Reflections on California," recorded 18th September 1967, and later broadcast by the BBC.

A discussion of the Kent State shootings, with Robert MacNeil, on Radio 4 (BBC), Summer 1970.

A discussion of employment problems in the academic world, with Barry Clark, on CKNW, September 19, 1979.

Reviews:

Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances, in The Gong (University of Nottingham), Autumn 1957, 37-39.

D. Traversi, Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V in Enquiry (University of Nottingham), February 1959, 66-68.

R. Garner, Henry Vaughan:  Experience and the Tradition, in AUMLA, No. 14 (1960), 71-73.

E.C. Pettet, Of Paradise and Light:  A Study of Vaughan's "Silex Scintillans" in AUMLA No. 15 (1961), 90-93.

S.L. Goldberg, The Classical Temper, A Study of James Joyce's "Ulysses", in Australian Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1961, 13-14.

E.D. Hirsch Jr., Wordsworth and Schelling:  A Typological Study of Romanticism, in AUMLA No. 16 (1961), 209-211.

Alan Price, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama, in AUMLA, No. 17 (1962), 116-117.

E.L. Marilla (ed.), The Secular Poems of Henry Vaughan, in AUMLA, No. 18 (1962), 261-263.

V. de S. Pinto, Enthusiast in Wit:  A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1647-1680, in AUMLA, No. 19 (1963), 144-145.

Morris West, The Shoes of the Fisherman, in Australian Book Review, Vol. 2, No. 9 (July 1963), 142-143.

R.A. Durr, On the Mystical Poetry of Henry Vaughan, in AUMLA, No. 20 (1963), 369-371.

Waldo F. McNeir (ed.), Studies in English Renaissance Literature, in AUMLA, No. 21 (1964), 103-105.

Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, in AUMLA, No. 22 (1964), 302-303.

Desiree Hirst, Hidden Riches:  Traditional Symbolism from the Renaissance to Blake, in AUMLA, No. 22 (1964), 304-305.

K.W. Salter, Thomas Traherne, Mystic and Poet, in AUMLA, No. 24 (1965), 301-302.

Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within:  Studies in Vaughan, Traherne, and Milton, in Southern Review (Adelaide), Vol. 1, No. 4 (1965), 84-86.

E.L. McAdam and George Milne (eds.), The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson (Volume 6:  Poems), in English Language Notes, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1965), 139-142.

The Complete Plays of D.H. Lawrence, in The Listener, Vol. 85, No. 1924, February 1966, 214-215.

H.T. Moore, D.H. Lawrence and His World; Keith Sagar, The Art of D.H. Lawrence; H.M. Daleski, The Forked Flame; David J. Gordon, D.H. Lawrence as a Literary Critic, in The Listener, September 1, 1966.

Stanley E. Fish, Surprised by Sin; Barbara Lewalski, Milton's Brief Epic; Wayne Shumaker, Unpremeditated Verse, in Southern Review (Adelaide), Vol. 3, No. 2 (1968), 184-188.

Colin Clarke, River of Dissolution:  D.H. Lawrence and English Romanticism; Harry T. Moore (ed.), D.H. Lawrence:  A Critical Survey, in Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 3 (1970), 454-455.

Marcia R. Pointon, Milton and English Art, in West Coast Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1971), 56-57.

"This Same Hermetic Dark Moist Cloud," a review of Kathleen Raine, Blake and Tradition, in Southern Review (Adelaide), Vol. 4, No. 2 (1970), 172-175.

"Vaughan's Each," a review of Imilda Tuttle, A Concordance to Vaughan's Silex Scintillans, in Essays in Criticism, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1971), 86-91.

I.F. Stone, The Killings at Kent State, in The Listener, 13 May 1971, 623-4.

Kenneth Friedenreich, Henry Vaughan, in West Coast Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1979), 62-64.

Anthony Low, Love's Architecture:  Devotional Modes in 17th Century English Poetry in Yearbook of English Studies, January 1981, 251-252.

David Trotter, The Poetry of Abraham Cowley in Notes & Queries, Vol. 28, No. 4, August 1981, 337-339.

Louis L. Martz, Poet of Exile:  A Study of Milton's Poetry, in English Language Notes, Vol. 19 (1982), 284-286.

Heather A.R. Asals, Equivocal Predication:  George Herbert's Way to God, in University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 4 (1982), 417-419.

Jonathan F.S. Post, Henry Vaughan:  The Unfolding Vision, in The Times Literary Supplement, June 24, 1983, 681.

"The Novels of Barbara Pym," The Reader (Vancouver, B.C.), Vol. 2, No. 3 (1983), 10-12.

Thomas O. Calhoun, Henry Vaughan:  The Achievement of "Silex Scintillans," The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. XXXV, No. 139 (1984), 381-383.

Anthony Raspa, The Emotive Image:  Jesuit Poetics in the English Renaissance, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 4 (1984), 421-422.

Edward Shils, The Academic Ethic, CAUT Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 8 (December 1984), 10.

D.M. Rosenberg, Oaten Reeds and Trumpets (co-written with June Sturrock); The Yearbook of English Studies (January 1985), 289-290.

Roman R. Dubinski, ed., Alexander Brome, Poems, English Studies in Canada, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1985), 91-93.

Robert Wilcher, Andrew Marvell, Times Literary Supplement, February 28, 1986, 228.

Michael Ignatieff, The Needs of Strangers, The Reader, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1986), 21-22.

George Parfitt, English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century; Graham Parry, Seventeenth-Century Poetry, The Social Context, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. xxxvii, No. 148 (1986), 567-568.

John R. Roberts, John Donne:  An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1968-1978, in The Yearbook of English Studies, January 1987, pp. 272-273.

John R. Roberts, Richard Crashaw:  An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. 1632-1980, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 150, May 1987, pp.250-251

Noel K. Thomas, Henry Vaughan, Poet of Revelation; Louis L. Martz, ed., George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, in The Times Literary Supplement, 27 March 1987, p. 316.

Ronald R. Bond, ed., Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547) and A Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570), in The University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 58, No.1 (1988), pp.106-107.

Harold Toliver, Lyric Provinces in the English Renaissance, in ARIEL:A Review of International English Literature, Vol.19, No.2 (1988), pp. 87-90.

Stephen L. Collins, From Divine Cosmos to Sovereign State: An Intellectual History of Consciousness and the Idea of Order in Renaissance England, in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4,512, September 22-28, 1989, p. 1036.

Thomas O. Calhoun, Laurence Heyworth, Allan Pritchard, eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley, Vol. One, in The Times Literary Supplement, September 7-13, 1990, p. 953.

John R. Roberts, ed., New Perspectives on the Life and Art of Richard Crashaw, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography., 4, 1990, 217-224.

Raymond A. Anselment, Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil War, in Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 42 (1991), 261-62.

Lois Potter, Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature 1641-1660; Raymond A. Anselement, Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil War, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 42 (1991), 261-262.

Michael Wilding, Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, in Renaissance Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (1992), 101-106.

Arthur L. Clements, Poetry of Contemplation: John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and the Modern Period; Sidney Gottlieb, ed., Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol43 (1992), 425-27.

Jonathan Sawday and Thomas Healy, eds., Literature and the English Civil War, in The Review of English Studies, Vol. XLIII, No. 172, November 1992, pp. 563-65.

Stephen M.Fallon, Milton Among the Philosophers, Renaissance Studies; 7, 1993, 121-125.

A.B.Chambers, Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth Century Praise and Restoration Satire, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 45, No. 178 (1994), 252-253.

Thomas N.Corns, Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature 1640-1660, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1993), 121-125.

Michael C. Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power. George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, Thomas Heffernan, Art and Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry of Devotion, The Review of English Studies Vol. 45, No. 179 (1994), 419-20.

Ernest W. Sullivan III, The Influence of John Donne.  His Uncollected Seventeenth-Century Printed Verse.  Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, New Series Vol. 8, No. 1 (1994), 70-75.

Nicholas Lossky, Lancelot Andrewes the Preacher (1555-1626), The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 45 No. 180 (Nov 1994), 556-557.

Diane Kelsey McColley, A Gust for Paradise.  Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts , Renaissance Studies,  Vol. 8, No. 3 (1994), 326-330.

Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution., Renaissance Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1994), 110-114.

Mario di Cesare, ed., George Herbert.   The Temple.  A Diplomatic Edition of the Bodleian Manuscript (Tanner 307), Seventeenth Century News, vol. 56, Nos. 3 and 4 (Fall-Winter 1998), 100-102.

Albert C. Labriola and Michael Lieb, eds., Milton Studies XXXIII.  The Miltonic Samson, Milton Review 12 (a six page review in electronic format).

David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic.  Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660, Seventeenth Century News, vol. 58, nos 1 & 2, Spring-Summer, 2000, 58-63.

Peter Davidson, ed., Poetry and Revolution.  An Anthology of British and Irish Verse, 1625-1660, Seventeenth Century News, vol. 58, nos 1 & 2, Spring-Summer, 2000, 81-85.

Joanna Moody, ed., The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, Seventeenth Century News, Vol. 58, nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter, 2000, 251-256.

Robert Wilcher, The Writing of Royalism, 1628-1660, Seventeenth Century News, vol. 60, Nos. 1 & 2 (2002): 21-23.

Philip West, Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses, Seventeenth Century News, Vol. 61, nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter, 2003, 189-193.

Donald R. Dickson, ed., Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan's Aqua Vitae: Non Vitis, Seventeenth Century News, Vol. 61, nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter, 2003, 193-197.

Roger D. Sell, Literature as Communication: The Foundations of Mediating Criticism and Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized, Seventeenth Century News, Vol. 61, nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter, 2003, 329-333.

Conference Papers:

"Alchemical Philosophy and Religio-Political Implication in the Poems of Henry Vaughan," read at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, San Marino, California, March 22, 1985.

"Henry Vaughan, the Liberation of the Creatures, and Seventeenth Century English Calvinism," at the International Conference of the Centre for Seventeenth Century Studies, Durham, England, July 1987.

"Vaughan's Theology Of Nature And The Religious Politics Of The Seventeenth Century" at the Pacific North-West Renaissance Conference, Banff, March 1987.

"The Woman Taken in Adultery" at the S.F.U. Colloquium on the Bible, 1991-3.

"Self-Presentation and the Pressure of Events: The Case of Henry Vaughan," at the Pacific North-West Renaissance Conference, University of British Columbia, March 1993.

‘Paradoxical Persona: Henry Vaughan's Self-Fashioning.’ read at the 1993 Conference of the Centre for Seventeenth Century Studies, Durham, England.  Accepted by the Huntington Library Quarterly.

“Henry Vaughan, Hermeticism and the Great Rebellion,” at the University of British Columbia “Work in Progress” Seminar, 25-26 February 1994.

‘The Woman Taken in Adultery’, at the International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Vancouver, May 1994.

""These Fragments I have shored against my ruins": Henry Vaughan, Hermeticism, and the Great Rebellion" at the Pacific North-West Renaissance Conference, University of Oregon, March 1988. Another version was read at the Modern Language Association's annual meeting, Chicago, December, 1995.

‘Henry Vaughan's Poems of Mourning,’ at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Centre for Seventeenth Century Studies, Durham, July 1995.  

“Henry Vaughan and Hermeticism,” read at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America in Chicago.   At the same meeting I organized a session devoted to Henry Vaughan to mark the Tercentenary of his death.

‘God's Other Book and the Regenerate Mind: Some Early Modern Conversion Experiences,’ read at the International John Bunyan Society Conference, Banff, Albert, September 1995. 

‘Discerning the Spirit in Samson Agonistes: The Dalila Episode,’ read at the Conference on John Milton, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, October 1995, now published (1999)  in a book of selected papers from the conference.

‘Samson Agonistes as battle-ground: historical probability as it relates to meaning and significance,’ read at the South-Western Renaissance Association Meeting in Tempe, Arizona, February 14-17,1996.  This paper was an account and appraisal of the continuation on the electronic Milton-List of the discussion provoked by my paper of October 1995 at the Southeastern Conference on John Milton.

‘Resistance, Rebellion and Silence: Henry Vaughan and Breconshire Royalism,’ read at the 1996 Renaissance conference at Dearborn, Michigan, now published (1999) in a book of selected papers from the conference.

‘The Problem of Sexual Reference in George Herbert's verse,’ read at the 1997 Renaissance Society of America Conference, Vancouver, Canada, accepted for publication by the George Herbert Journal.

“For then the Earth shall be all Paradise: Milton, Vaughan and the neo-Calvinists on the Ecology of the Hereafter,”  read at the 1997 Conference on John Milton, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, October 1997, and at the 1998 Renaissance Society of America Conference, College Park, Maryland, now published in Scintilla: the journal of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association.

“Henry Vaughan and Rowland Watkyns, neighbours but not friends: a biographical puzzle reconsidered,” read at the Usk Valley Vaughan Association Conference, Buckland Hall, Breconshire, May 5-7, 2000, now published in Scintilla 5 (2001), 61-71.

“T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Comedy of Textual Politics”, read at the 20^TH Triennial Conference of the International Association of University Professors of English, Lund, Sweden, August 7, 2007.

“Bringing Peace Back to Life: The Anglican Irenicism of Lancelot Andrewes, Henry Vaughan and Rowan Williams”, read at the Connotations Conference in Tuebingen, Germany, July 31, 2007

Invited Lectures:

"The Teaching of Poetry,” read at the California State Colleges Program Development Conference, December 1, 1967.

"Time and History in Paradise Lost,” read to the Association of English Graduate Students at the University of British Columbia, February 1971.

"The Academic Job-Market for Graduates in English Language and Literature,” read to the Association of English Graduate Students at the University of British Columbia, February 1981.

"Alchemical Philosophy and Religio-Political Implication in the Poems of Henry Vaughan," University of British Columbia, Fall 1984 (an earlier version of a paper given at the Renaissance Society of America in 1985).

"Henry Vaughan and the Religious Politics of Seventeenth Century England,” read at the University of Victoria, March 17, 1987.

"Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Henry Vaughan and the English Commonwealth,” in the "Discourse Communities" series, 丁香园AV, 1987.

"Producing a Critical Edition: the purpose, the pitfalls, the opportunities,” opening lecture of English 810 (Graduate Research Seminar Part 1), September 15, 1987.

"Clio and Polyhymnia: Henry Vaughan and the Great Rebellion" 丁香园AV History Department Seminar, November 26, 1987.

The first Murray W. Bundy Memorial Lecture, on Henry Vaughan and Milton, at Washington State University, July, 1989.

"Domination over all the Earth: Early Modern Thought and Ecological Crisis, " The Vancouver Institute, 1989.

"John Milton and Henry Vaughan: United in a Single Party?" An address to the Henry Vaughan Society, Jesus College, Oxford, Hilary Term, 1990.

Two lectures on “Hermeticism as Religio-Political Discourse" to the Oxford English Faculty, Trinity Term, 1990.

A seminar presentation on Vaughan's "Isaac's Marriage" to the Oxford University Renaissance Society, Trinity Term, 1990.

A lecture on St. Francis of Assissi, St. Mary's Anglican Church, Kerrisdale, Lent, 1991.

A lecture on St. John the Baptist, St. Mary's Anglican Church, Kerrisdale, Lent 1992.

A lecture, “Problems of Faith,” to the Anglican Community at 丁香园AV, 1992.

“Henry Vaughan’s Poems of Mourning,” a contribution to a three-person panel on Vaughan at the United Kingdom Festival of Literature, Swansea, April 1995.

“Henry Vaughan’s twentieth century critics,” the opening address at a symposium on Vaughan organized by the Brecknock Museum Society, April 23, 1995.

“Henry Vaughan’s Poems of Mourning,” the fifty-minute version of this paper, read as keynote speaker to the conference on Vaughan at Gregynog, the conference centre of the University of Wales, June 1995. 

“’The established world, not the inhabitants thereof’: Man and Nature in early modern thought,” read to the University of Wales Early Modern Seminar (by videoconference from Cardiff), May 22, 2000.

"British Intelligence and the strange case of the Master of Balliol." A lecture to the 丁香园AV Retirees Association,” January 20^th, 2009.

Service to the Profession:

Reports:

Chairman of the AAUP Enquiry on the Music and Speech Building Incident at Kent State University.  Report published in 1969.

Chairman of the ACUTE Committee to consider Unemployment and Underemployment of Qualified University Teachers of English in Canada.  Report published in May 1979.